matriarchal society in a sentence
Examples
- In the 17th century, Dutch colonists who came to what is now known as New York City, operated under a matriarchal society.
- Pearson agreed with the theory of a prehistoric matriarchal society, and concurred with Gage that the witch-cult was a survival of it.
- In the past, elderly Navajo women, the clan leaders in this matriarchal society, have shot rifles over the heads of government surveyors and assessors.
- The Lenca was a matriarchal society and was one of the first civilizations to develop in El Salvador and were the first major civilization in the country.
- According to the matriarchal society; however, new research contradicts this claim and the Marxist paradigm is gradually being phased out in modern Chinese archaeological research.
- Some indigenous groups such as the Wayuu hold a matriarchal society in which a woman's role is central and the most important for their society.
- For example, I noticed that the women I interviewed were making most of the decisions, which fitted into my preconception that America is a matriarchal society.
- The "'Amazonian people "'of DC Comics are a fictional matriarchal society of ethnically diverse superhumans, based on the Amazons of Greek mythology.
- Witches, as depicted in the Night World series, are a matriarchal society bearing a strong resemblance to the neopagan religion of Wicca and to the Goddess movement.
- Quenthel is female and the second highest-ranking person in the matriarchal society of Menzoberranzan, but due to Lolth's Silence, she had no clerical powers.