What are the limitations of using the term "matriarchal" to describe diverse societies?

Aug 24, 2017 ... I'm looking for some fiction set within a matriarchal society with a male protagonist. What I'm looking for isn't something where the matriarchy is full of ... Jul 24, 2020 ... This social and political reversal took with it the Malagasy matriarchal society: the thesis of men's superiority then found itself at the heart ... Feb 25, 2025 ... The Mosuo of China. Nestled in the Himalayan mountains between China's Yunnan and Sichuan provinces lives the Mosuo people. The remote community ... Mar 29, 2021 ... Khasis – who account for state's largest ethnic community – are one of the last existing matrilineal societies in the world. The matriarchal societies around the world that embrace the power of womanhood. A look at the inspirational matriarchal societies across the globe. Mar 25, 2020 ... Collating all the evidence of non-Western and Western 21st-century scholarship, matriarchy is here defined as mother-centered societies, based ... A matriarchal society is when a female reigns politically or rules over a group of people. In matriarchal societies, a woman will be the autonomous head of ... Mar 31, 1995 ... Residents defend themselves against outsiders who dismiss their society as being machismo in reverse. By JUANITA DARLING. March 31 ... Apr 1, 2017 ... This progressive, feminist world – or anachronistic matriarchy, as skewed as any patriarchal society, depending on your viewpoint – exists in a ... Apr 9, 2015 ... The men of the Keepers of the Moon live a wanderer's life, for they are at their best in small doses. Women and children keep the hearth, ply ...