patriarchal society

collocation in English

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patriarchal
adjective
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/ˌpeɪ.triˈɑː.kəl/us
/ˌpeɪ.triˈɑːr.kəl/
ruled or controlled ...
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society
noun
uk
/səˈsaɪ.ə.ti/us
/səˈsaɪ.ə.t̬i/
a large group of people who live together in an organized way, making decisions about how to do things and sharing the work that needs to be done. All the people in a country, or in several similar countries, can be referred to as ...
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(Definition ofpatriarchalandsocietyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Getting married confirmed a man's entry intopatriarchalsociety, conferring new social roles and responsibilities.
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The web of these associations constitutes an artistic reflection on the sensibility and experience of the feminine in apatriarchalsociety.
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There are three : women's agency within apatriarchalsociety, the variable experiences of women in such a society, or straightforward patriarchal oppression.
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Shengmin is incapable of divesting himself of the privileges that accrue to him as a man in apatriarchalsociety.
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Hysteria is made up of an implex of sonic images relating the body, fertility, menses, and the violence associated with the position of women in apatriarchalsociety.
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Patriarchalsocietyis based on men.
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The roles of victim and perpetrator are reversed for the benefit of apatriarchalsociety.
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Such a view, she claims, classifies women and the female body predominantly as victims, living passively/submissively withinpatriarchalsociety, a tabula rasa awaiting inscription.
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Women are prevented from enjoying their rights by thepatriarchalsociety.
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She thought thatpatriarchalsocietyutilizes these differences as a basis for establishing the male as superior, and the female as inferior.
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There is no way to avoid the fact that the story presupposes apatriarchalsociety.
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In the 1970s, radical feminists became increasingly focused on issues around sexuality in apatriarchalsociety.
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Without attachment to the world, excluding thepatriarchalsociety, women can find inner strength.
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Botkin was of the opinion thatpatriarchalsocietyhad caused many of the problems plaguing humankind.
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Is it the ruffians who committed the crime or thepatriarchalsociety, who is the abater?
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Collective child rearing was also a way to escape thepatriarchalsocietythat the founders came from.
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Similarly, the new horizons that they pointed to and their historical importance were not to be evaluated bypatriarchalsociety.
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Albanian women reside within a conservative andpatriarchalsociety.
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