\[ **BT: [[society]] | [[kinship]]** ] \[ **RT: [[matriarchy]]** ] --- # patriarchy [[Under patriarchy, those who are not men are always ‘the other’. Goettner-Abendroth describes this a form of ‘internal colonialism’.]][^1] Note the connection between patriarchy and *external* colonialism, too.[^2] - see also: - [[kinship#patrilocality]] - [[kinship#patrilineality]] - [[kinship#the patrifocal family]] ## religious beliefs and the patriarchy ### monotheism [[Schlain writes, ‘Three thousand years ago in the West, the powerful idea of monotheism transformed the world. Patriarchy became a defining characteristic of Western culture and religion.’]][^3] [^1]: Heide Goettner-Abendroth, ‘[[Goettner-Abendroth, ‘Re-thinking “Matriarchy”’, 2018|Re-thinking “Matriarchy” in Modern Matriarchal Studies Using Two Examples: The Khasi and the Mosuo]]’, *Asian Journal of Women’s Studies*, vol. 24, no. 1 (2018), p. 4, <https://doi.org/10.1080/12259276.2017.1421293>. [^2]: Heide Goettner-Abendroth, ‘[[Goettner-Abendroth, ‘Re-thinking “Matriarchy”’, 2018|Re-thinking “Matriarchy” in Modern Matriarchal Studies Using Two Examples: The Khasi and the Mosuo]]’, *Asian Journal of Women’s Studies*, vol. 24, no. 1, <https://doi.org/10.1080/12259276.2017.1421293>. [^3]: Leonard Shlain, *[[Shlain, Sex, Time, and Power, 2003|Sex, Time, and Power: How Women’s Sexuality Shaped Human Evolution]]* (Penguin, 2003), chap. 17. EPUB.