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	The Term Matriarchy
		The modern studies of matriarchy corrected this misunderstanding in the German-speaking countries in the sixties 20.
		In the international science discourse the term matriarchy is maintained, although sometimes it is misconstrued as "mother's rule" or "woman's rule"; both never existed in accordance to today's state of research.
		Today Matriarchy is used in the sense of "motherly beginning" as a beginning of a cycle, because these societies are coined by cyclic thinking unlike linear.
	matriarchy.info /index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=87&Itemid=128 (348 words)

	matriarchy - Encyclopedia.com
		Claims for the existence of matriarchy rest on three types of data: societies in which women make the major contribution to subsistence, societies in which descent is traced through women (i.e., matrilineal), and myths of ancient rule by women.
		MATRIARCHY AS A THEORY AND CONCEPT In this essay matriarchy is defined as that form of social organization in which descent is reckoned through...
		Upheaval from the depth: the "Zapatistas," the indigenous civilization, the question of matriarchy, and the West.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-matriarc.html (1225 words)

	Matriarchy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Matriarchy is a form of society in which power is with the women and especially with the mothers of a community.
		Matriarchy is distinct from matrilineality, where children are identified in terms of their mother rather than their father, and extended families and tribal alliances form along female blood-lines.
		Another matriarchy is the Hapan Consortium, a cluster of 63 planets, that are all ruled by the Queen Mother of Hapes.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Matriarchy (2515 words)

	Talk:Matriarchy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A matriarchy is a tradition (and by extension a form of government) in which community power lies with the women of a community.
		A matriarchy is a tradition (and by extension a form of government) in which community power lies with the eldest mother of a community.
		This is exactly what is meant by Matriarchial system, in traditional societies these individuals would be residing at their father's side/ male side, not the side of the mother/female as mentioned in the statement that has been pointed out.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Talk:Matriarchy (5974 words)

	Kundalini Gateway: Library of lost links. What Matriarchy (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Matriarchy, contrary to this, somewhat skewed, dictionary definition is a complex subject which is very often misunderstood and misleading.
		Matriarchy has been looked at by some, to be a possible solution to ending the problems associated with the current patriarchal system.
		Matriarchy is a myth but theoretically it has the ability to alter the current notion of our social reality, by taking power out of the hands of men.
	www.kundalini-gateway.org /library/lib_whatmatr.html (776 words)

	The Challenge of the Matriarchy By Evelyn Reed
		To justify this discrediting of the pioneers it is usually contended that there was "insufficient" documentation on the prior existence of the matriarchy, and, in any case, no one could ever draw any "universal" conclusions about a remote period that was forever closed off from view.
		Those who have turned away from the matriarchy, however, fail to understand totemism because it was the female sex that instituted it.
		Patrilineal kinship in the period of the matriarchy was no more than a paternal relationship between two matrilineal clans in which the mother-brother relationship remained pre-eminent and decisive.
	www.angelfire.com /pr/red/feminism/challenge_of_the_matriarchy.htm (4400 words)

	Matriarchy and Islam Post 9/11: The Case of the Minangkabau of Indonesia
		Defining matriarchy as the mirror image of patriarchy is based on two faulty assumptions: first, that women must be like men to occupy a central position in society, and secondly, that the core of social life revolves around governance as we know it.
		In the Minangkabau case matriarchy is a system of interlocking public symbols and ritual practices focused on the maternal household, clan land, and the life cycle.
		From the Minangkabau case I conclude that the key to matriarchy is in cultural systems constituted by first principles and dominant symbols rooted in maternal meanings.
	www.asiasource.org /asip/sanday.cfm (1811 words)

	Operation: Matriarchy Preview for PC at GamingExcellence (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Their latest project, Operation: Matriarchy, sees them departing from their niche space flight-sim category and foraying into the supersaturated genre of first-person shooters, albeit with a twist.
		As well, weapons in Operation: Matriarchy have been programmed to deal “true damage,” meaning that a shot to the leg won’t do the same harm as a shot to the head.
		Overall, Operation: Matriarchy appears to be a promising addition to the FPS genre.
	www.gamingexcellence.com /pc/games/238/preview.shtml (792 words)

	Underground Matriarchy (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The danger in mapping out an "underground matriarchy" is that we will replace the Old Boy's Network, which for so long has excluded women, younger designers, and people working at the margins of the professional mainstream, with an equally exclusive New Girl's Network, defined by its own personal ties and ideological biases.
		For me, to chart the family tree of an "underground matriarchy" is not to recast the traditional Olympiad of individual genius with a new set of shining stars but rather to shift the focus of design journalism from the individual as creator ex nihilo to the individual as actor in a social context.
		Simply put, the efforts of this "matriarchy" has made possible the kind of permissive, wild, personal, and pluralistic form-language that so many men are getting famous for right now.
	www.designwritingresearch.org /essays/matriarchy.html (3658 words)

	Welcome to the Frontpage
		Namely, the idea that the right of the mother represents “an early cultural phase of humanity.” Bachofen, for example, connected Mother Right with pre-antique peoples, and the patriarchal model with the “more highly developed” Greek culture which sprang from them.
		The frequently encountered circular encampment, the circular structure of the settlement is an especially obvious architectonic possibility for the expression of social equality.
		If there is no violence at all, no physical violence, no violence in language, no violence to children (includes the violent education to obedience), no emotional violence by keeping back attention or tenderness, no violence to animals, humans or nature, no violence to oneself, like eating like crazy, abuse of drugs, alcohol...
	www.matriarchy.info (2889 words)

	Women in the Center: A Journey Into Matriarchy
		This book is a memoir of an intellectual and personal journey into the heart of matriarchy as I came to know it in West Sumatra generally and in Eggi's village in particular.
		The excision of matriarchy from the anthropological canon on the grounds that women don't rule obscures the dominant role played by maternal meanings in many societies.
		Based on this experience, I suggest that the term matriarchy is relevant in societies where maternal symbols are linked to social practices influencing the lives of both sexes and women play a central role in these practices.
	www.sas.upenn.edu /~psanday/sanday.htm (1737 words)

	The State Matriarchy \| Enforced Destruction of Society and Marriage by feminist ideology (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In a state matriarchy, the children belong to the mother but the state is responsible for supporting those children, either indirectly, by forcing absent fathers to support those children (child support), or directly, by using tax monies (welfare and other government programs).
		The dominant cultural narratives of the state matriarchy are two: the noble, virtuous single mom and the "deadbeat dad." In these cultural narratives, single moms are bravely struggling to raise their children, saintly victims of circumstance and scumbag dads who abandoned them.
		And they would begin to dismantle the state matriarchy, wherein the rule of law is replaced by the rule of a woman's will, backed by the police power of the state.
	www.nodnc.com /modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=168 (1980 words)

	the Junkyard: Operation: Matriarchy Preview
		Level design was rather interesting as well: one minute you're in a hull of some cargo cruiser, the next, you're easing your way through the cooridoors of a biomechanical hive.
		The character design in Operation: Matriarchy is definitely out of the ordinary.
		So while it is too early to give a definitive "thumbs up" or "thumbs down" to this game, there are so many promising; albeit, somewhat odd things that this game has going for it that will make us keep an eye on it.
	the-junkyard.net /previews.php?action=viewpreview&id=7 (521 words)

	WAS IT MATRIARCHY? - The New York Review of Books
		Matriarchy, in the usual sense of normative and practical dominance of a society by women, is largely the speculative construct of smug Victorian patriarchs, pap for the women and salve for their consciences, feigning humility before a supposedly even more golden age than their own.
		It is surprising that Rich does not suspect this, because her sensibilities are obviously attuned to such subterfuges and she is furthermore doubtful about the dependability of her sources on matriarchy (Bachofen, 1861; Davis, 1971).
		The first is that "aside from irresponsible speculations, there is no evidence either in the past or in the present of a matriarchal society." The second is that in seeking social change, feminism needs no validation in a "mythical past" or "golden age." With the latter point, and with the last sentence of Mr.
	www.nybooks.com /articles/9751 (672 words)

	Salon.com books \| False goddess (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In certain circles, she claims, the notion of an ancient matriarchy is a booming business.
		The myth of a remote past dominated by matriarchy is not a contemporary invention.
		In the United States, meanwhile, prehistoric matriarchy was popularized first by Erich Neumann in "The Great Mother" (1955) and then in the 1970s by the Lithuanian émigré archaeologist Marija Alseikaite Gimbutas at UCLA.
	archive.salon.com /books/feature/2000/06/28/matriarchy/index.html?CP=SAL&D (932 words)

	Matriarchy Marked by Tribalism and Violence
		Patriarchy can be said to exist in a culture if it recognizes the male's right to exercise ultimate control over his progeny; matriarchy exists where women have ultimate control of the progeny.
		In the US, legal changes granting mothers custody instead of the traditional father custody presumption evolved during the industrial revolution, when men were largely absent from family life.
		This change to a presumption of mother custody is by definition a change to matriarchy.
	www.fathermag.com /news/2757-matriarchy-feminism-violence.shtml (936 words)

	Gamehelper PC/Mac (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Operation: Matriarchy is the second in a huge batch of preview builds I volunteered to evaluate over the past month.
		After spending a good deal of time with Operation: Matriarchy, I firmly believe Buka’s upcoming FPS will offer a good deal of originality while throwing in familiar elements that gamers have come to cherish over the years.
		From what I’ve played so far, Operation: Matriarchy is a dark game, reminding me of id Software’s Doom 3 as players are forced to move cautiously through dimly-lit areas with a limited amount of ammunition.
	pcmac.gamehelper.com /articles/552.htm (435 words)

	the Junkyard: Operation: Matriarchy
		We recently had the opportunity to sit down with the developers behind Operation: Matriarchy to get an inside scoop on the details of this promising FPS.
		MADia: Well, except for the fact that mutated aliens once were humans and the planet was a human colony in the past and it seems that the relationship with the aliens before the latest events with sending troopers was quite peaceful for years and years, I think, you can very well say so.
		MADia: We are close to alpha and hope to be in time with the release deadline.
	the-junkyard.net /interviews.php?action=viewinterview&id=47 (746 words)

	Theories of Matriarchy and Patriarchy by G.R. Taylor
		Thus he saw each society as evolving through three phases, promiscuity, matriarchy, patriarchy, whereas Maine saw each society as evolving from a collection of isolated patriarchal families into a patriarchal tribe or nation, with matriarchy as a degenerate form.
		Furthermore, the nineteenth century writers tended to see matriarchy and patriarchy as mutually exclusive patterns: there would necessarily be a transition period when a new phase replaced an old one, but, once established, the new pattern would remain stable for a long time.
		Since it is the existence of patrist attitudes which leads to the establishment of appropriate institutions, of which placing power in the hands of men is one, it might seem that the mistake of the nineteenths century theorists was merely to overlook the slowness with which institutions respond to changes in attitudes.
	www.ourcivilisation.com /smartboard/shop/taylorgr/sxnhst/chap18.htm (1628 words)

	Wicca: For the Rest of Us - Myth of Matriarchy
		Since I first stated "there is no such thing as a matriarchal civilization," several people have named possible matriarchal cultures.
		So, in the interests of accuracy, I shall limit the above statement slightly.
		There have been no matriarchal civilizations in Europe or the Middle East, which is the location generally given for these mythological, Goddess worshipping matriarchies.
	wicca.timerift.net /matriarchal.shtml (881 words)

	Do scientists deny matriarchy?
		"Like other elements of the evolutionist view of culture, the notion of matriarchy as a universal stage of development is now generally discredited, and the modern consensus is that a strictly matriarchal society has never existed." (source Britannica) How come?
		But at the same time you will find articles about tribes or ethnic groups which are described as matriarchal.
		Also: As source or futher reading many references mention Cynthia Eller The Myth of Matriarchal Prehistory, a patriarchal point of view where the author confuses female dominance with matriarchy, but not Women at the Center: Life in a Modern Matriarchy by Peggy Reeves Sanday, who describes the matriarchal Minangkabau in West-Sumatra, with whom she lived.
	matriarchy.info /index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=151&Itemid=139 (267 words)

	"The Goddess Matriarchy - Forward.com"
		Do the stories in Kings describe the conversion of the Hebrews from Goddess matriarchy to God patriarchy?”
		But the Astarte of ancient Near East religions always had a husband.
		A Near East tradition of exclusive goddess worship, supposedly indicative of a deposed and vanished (and, it must be added, purely imaginary) “Goddess matriarchy,” exists only in radical feminist myth.
	www.forward.com /articles/the-goddess-matriarchy (620 words)

	Matriarchy: history or reality?
		She tries to show that the proofs for matriarchy are rather frail, based mainly on interpretation of Greek myths and Herodotus’ Histories.
		When we apply this to the insistence that there ever was or could be a matriarchy, we must require a theory of society which implies it.
		To the group of matriarchies, or egalitarian societies, depending on how to define it, several Pacific and Native American cultures could be added, for example Pueblo Indians (the Zuni, Laguna and Hopi), the pre-19th century Iroquois and Innu (Montaignais-Naskapi), the Vanatinai, and
	www.saunalahti.fi /penelope/Feminism/matriarchy.html (1652 words)

	Amazon.fr : Women at the Center: Life in a Modern Matriarchy: Livres en anglais: Peggy Reeves Sanday,Mita Choudhury (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Numbering some four million in West Sumatra, the Minangkabau are known in Indonesia for their literary flair, business acumen, and egalitarian, democratic relationships between men and women.
		Sanday uses her repeated visits to West Sumatra in the closing decades of the twentieth century as the basis for a new definition of matriarchy.
		From the vantage point of daily life in villages, especially one where she developed close personal ties, Sanday's narrative is centered on how the Minangkabau conceive of their world and think humans should behave, along with the practices and rituals they claim uphold their matriarchate.
	www.amazon.fr /Women-Center-Life-Modern-Matriarchy/dp/0801489067 (380 words)

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