(1) Like so many other women caught in war zones, these women are victims of a violently eroding patriarchal system.(2) She has totally internalised patriarchal values that are common to our society.(3) Recognition that the power structure is also patriarchal helps to explain much of the resistance.(4) Parents enjoy a patriarchal status and the father claims the best chair near the fire.(5) Her mother wants to be sympathetic, yet as a representative of her father's patriarchal power, she can only follow the script laid out for her.(6) In this sense the representations of motherhood potentially extend far beyond patriarchal ideology.(7) For decades, international development agencies skirted gender issues in highly patriarchal societies.(8) Despite his living in a rigidly patriarchal society his strongest and most memorable characters are all female.(9) I am also conscious of my identity as a writer within a patriarchal culture.(10) She then received patriarchal permission to pursue kinship with offspring of creditable lineage!(11) All the sampled groups clearly exhibit patriarchal structures, including those relevant to marriage.(12) A feminist might see it as an instrument of patriarchal oppression.(13) In a patriarchal society men fear independent autonomous women.(14) In short, patriarchal society values masculine gender roles only when they are performed by males.(15) Big farmers in the area come from a strongly patriarchal and feudal background.(16) She has rejected the patriarchal society and a traditional marriage.
