LITERATURE QUESTIONS
LITERARY THEORY AND CRITICISM
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Any culture that privileges men by promoting traditional gender roles, and penalizing women when they stray from those roles
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the clergy of the Catholic or Episcopal Church; the religious authorities
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the regular business given to a store, restaurant, or public service by a person or group
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Follow the Bro Code
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Detailed explanation-1: -Patriarchy could be defined as a social system that upholds the idea that men are superior to women. Male dominance over women’s social, political and economic and life decision making is the center to a patriarchal society. Patriarchy has a long and elaborative history.
Detailed explanation-2: -Patriarchy is a system of relationships, beliefs, and values embedded in political, social, and economic systems that structure gender inequality between men and women. Attributes seen as “feminine” or pertaining to women are undervalued, while attributes regarded as “masculine” or pertaining to men are privileged.
Detailed explanation-3: -Patriarchal society by definition means a society controlled by men in which they use their power to their own advantage. An example of a patriarchy is when the family name comes from the man in the family. The dominance of men in social or cultural systems.
Detailed explanation-4: -Women were key to the maintenance of human society and community, but with a few exceptions, social and legal power was wielded by men. Women could gain some status and privilege in patriarchy by limiting her child-bearing capacity to just one man so that he could depend on her children being his children.
Detailed explanation-5: -patriarchy, hypothetical social system in which the father or a male elder has absolute authority over the family group; by extension, one or more men (as in a council) exert absolute authority over the community as a whole.