Patriarchy (disambiguation)
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Patriarchy
Patriarchy
Patriarchy is a social system in which the role of the male as the primary authority figure is central to social organization, and where fathers hold authority over women, children, and property. It implies the institutions of male rule and privilege, and entails female subordination...

is the structuring of a society under male leaders.

Patriarchy may also refer to:
  • Patriarchy, or patriarchate
    Patriarchate
    A patriarchate is the office or jurisdiction of a patriarch. A patriarch, as the term is used here, is either* one of the highest-ranking bishops in Eastern Orthodoxy, earlier, the five that were included in the Pentarchy: Rome, Constantinople, Alexandria, Antioch, and Jerusalem, but now nine,...

    , the office or jurisdiction of an Eastern Orthodox patriarch
  • Patriarchy, a 1980s Iranian TV series, known for its score by Bahram Dehghanyar
    Bahram Dehghanyar
    Bahram Dehghanyar is an Iranian musician and Film Score composer. His main profession is writing soundtracks for Movies and TV Serials. He also writes and composes songs for many famous Iranian singers....

  • "Patriarchy", the 2006 debut episode of the TV series Brothers & Sisters; see List of Brothers & Sisters episodes


See also
  • Patriarch
    Patriarch
    Originally a patriarch was a man who exercised autocratic authority as a pater familias over an extended family. The system of such rule of families by senior males is called patriarchy. This is a Greek word, a compound of πατριά , "lineage, descent", esp...

  • Patriarch (disambiguation)
    Patriarch (disambiguation)
    Patriarch can refer to:* Patriarch, the highest-ranking bishops of the autocephalous churches in Eastern Orthodoxy, Oriental Orthodoxy, the Roman Catholic Church, and the Assyrian Church of the East...

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