would you be able to define patriarchy in 140 characters,that way we will have a base to argue about instead of everyone own interpretation
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Easily. It's a system of society set up in way in which only men have power & women are denied it.
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Power on a societal level, that is. They get to make the laws, run the society, tell women what to do.
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Doesn't require all men to have power but for a person to need to be a man to have it.
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Saudi Arabia is the best current example. We lost the last traces of it in the UK at end of last century.
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Women got the right to own property at end of 19th, vote at beginning of 20th, etc. My mother denied mortgage w/out male guarantor in 70s
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As defined by Feminist theory? No As defined by Anthropology? Yes
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