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Example sentences for: patriarchal

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She stood for the clear separation of the public from the private sphere, a distinction dismissed as patriarchal a long time ago by feminists who thought it denigrated domestic life.
An ironic one, too, given Paz's record as a critic of Mexico's addiction to patriarchal power.
Some theorists describe women's relation to language as primarily a product of patriarchal oppression; others, usually acknowledging oppression, focus on women's strengths.
This kind of picture has one of two thrusts: It either sides with the suffocated housewife who, like Ibsen's Nora, strives to break free of a repressive patriarchal hold, or it demonizes a culture that tempts men and women to put their own gratification before their responsibilities as parents.
According to the catalog, Simpson's pictures of women staring blankly underscore that they are "unheard in a racist, patriarchal society."