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n. See matriarchy.

n. A hypothetical stage in the evolution of a society in which authority is held by women.

n. matriarchy

n. The office or jurisdiction of a matriarch; a matriarchal form of government.

n. The position or power of a matriarch.

n. a form of social organization in which a female is the family head and title is traced through the female line

"Nor does this all seem to be solely a survival of the historic matriarchate through which all nations pass,—it appears to be more than this,—as if the great black race in passing up the steps of human culture gave the world, not only the Iron Age, the cultivation of the soil, and the domestication of animals, but also, in peculiar emphasis, the mother-idea."

social structure    structure    social organisation    social system    social organization   

druidess    tool-making    breast-feeding    pre-existence    corroboree