Patriarchal in a sentence

The single gendered utopias of female science fiction are free of the conflicts that feminism aims to eliminate, such as patriarchal oppression and the gender inequality inherent in patriarchal society.

Also, the patriarchal nature of African societies underscores the institutional antagonism experienced in the continent.

A mother’s body apparently belonged to vague patriarchal laws I couldn’t always identify and therefore needed to be taught, many of which rested on the assumption that a lack of autonomy was simply part of motherhood.

Black points out that, prior to colonization, aboriginals lived in rigidly patriarchal nomadic tribes that were sparsely populated across the territory now called Canada.

Colonialism is also patriarchal: the colonial world may be a place of freedom and adventure, but only for some (white males?).

From Garvey to Marley, Erskine shows how Rastafarianism fuses deep-rooted patriarchal attitudes in Jamaica with the Hebrew Bible’s fixation on female modesty and ritual cleanliness.

In deeply conservative and patriarchal Afghanistan, attitudes to girls' education have been slowly changing in rural areas, where the advantages are being recognised.

It is the responsibility of men in this patriarchal society, given their privilege and power, to educate and call attention to friends and colleagues as soon as they hear the slightest hint of sexist violence.

It’s like what is this patriarchal pyramid where someone stands up here,” she said.

Our goal was to determine our child’s surname fairly while chipping away at a patriarchal norm.

She busts out her to free her sister from the repressive patriarchal demands Salim's family.

Spurring this growth is a traditional patriarchal culture in which women’s identity is constrained by the social expectation they bear children.

The film tells the tale of a young Pakistani man from a patriarchal family who joins an erotic dance theater and falls for an ambitious transgender starlet.

The patriarchal Naga society after sixty years has sowed the seed of gender equality in these two Constituencies i.e., 8th Western Assembly Constituency and Dimapur III Assembly Constituency.

There are many feminisms and complex theorising around gender inequality and the lived experience within patriarchal societies.

The two are unpopular best friends who consistently find themselves on the outskirts of their football-worshipping, patriarchal high school, desiring to date the popular cheerleaders but unsure exactly how.

They possessed a “self-aware inquiry of femininity as a choice, rather than patriarchal coercion… (showing how) meaningful playfulness is to the construction of gender and how gender can be an arena of exploration” (Maya Padan, 2023).

This is a realistic and interesting portrayal of a female superhero trying to find her own identity in a patriarchal society.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, center left, stands next to Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, the spiritual leader of the world’s Orthodox Christians, at the Patriarchal Church of St. George in Istanbul, Turkey on Saturday, July 8, 2023.

Unlike the preceding 110 minutes, which got at genuine points about patriarchal society by methodically cataloging various iterations of disempowerment, gaslighting, and dehumanization, that scene makes no real point.