RE: Since individual women would be plugged into administrative offices that were created during the patriarchal era, and thereby subject to the template of standards, traditions, advice, policies, strategies and role-playing expectations of those offices which were likewise formulated and entrenched during the reign of men... Then I don't see how a female leader could fully get "in touch" with and exercise any supposed alternative, "matriarchal worldview" that would end or feature fewer wars, anyway. As _X_ female leader would be constrained by those pre-existing institutions, forms of management and systemic evaluation of the quality of that management under _X_ leader.
The movement's version of the concept, then, from its own advocates and reviewers:
Matriarchal Point of View
http://matriarchy.info/index.php?option=...2&Itemid=1
INTRO: Since most patriarchal socialized women and men are not able to think out of patriarchal norms, they don't get the meaning of the term 'matriarchy'. Most people believe mistakenly, that matriarchy is a simple reversal of patriarchy: What men do now would be taken over by women. Just an exchange of roles. I will throw light on this fundamental fallacy...
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Carol P. Christ: [...]
Heide Göttner-Abendroth rejects the common definition of matriarchy as “mother-rule” with the connotation of “female domination.” Instead she argues that matriarchies are societies that honor mothers and consider care and generosity–values they associate with motherhood–to be the highest values. In affirming values associated with motherhood, matriarchal societies are not essentialist. They do not affirm that only women can be nurturers of life. Quite the opposite, they assert that the highest role for anyone–male or female or other–is to nurture life. This is so far from the way we think, that it will be easy to misconstrue what is being said.
Matriarchal societies [...] are egalitarian, they are matrilineal (tracing descent through the motherline), and they are usually matrilocal (with women and sometimes men staying in the mother clan). In matriarchal societies, men are not dominated, and as anthropologists have long understood, men do hold power as brothers and uncles. However, men do not dominate, because mothers and grandmothers also hold power. Together great-uncles and grandmothers create an egalitarian system where everyone’s voice can be heard. The power to dominate is not held to be the highest value.
In matriarchal societies sex and love really are free because they are not tied up with providing for a family or caring for children. The matriarchal clan remains at the center of life; children are brought up by the maternal clan, including mothers, aunts and grandmothers, brothers and uncles. Lovers are free to come together and to part.
Land is held by the female clans and inequalities are erased by a wide-spread practice of gift-giving. Those who have more hold parties and feasts where what they have is shared rather than hoarded. In matriarchal societies the earth is generally understood to be a Great and Giving Mother and her generous gift of Life is celebrated in rituals that celebrate her as the Source of Life.
In some parts of the world matriarchies have been superseded by patriarchy, but not everywhere. Matriarchal societies still exist today in the Himalayas and in parts of Indonesia, as well as in areas in Africa and the Americas.
[...] In Crete I learned a different lesson. I met people who love to give and who consider giving to others on a daily basis to be a part of life. The people I met also enjoyed receiving. For them life is a circle that includes self and other. Self-denial was not a part of it. To give is to live. But so is to receive. Recognizing the two together is, I believe, the essence of the
matriarchal worldview.[*] (
Matriarchy: Daring to use the word)
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Tom DeMott: [...] What first strikes those who read how [social anthropologist]
Veronika Bennholdt-Thomsen defined matriarchy is this: It makes no reference to a hierarchical structure in which women occupy positions in the upper echelons. In the pages that follow, Bennholdt-Thomsen's definition addresses this apparent contradiction by explaining that a modern day matriarchal society-by its nature-would never permit such hierarchies.
This, Bennholdt-Thomsen tells us, would only invert the worst element of the warlike and destructive male patriarchy. "Lastly, it is worthwhile mentioning what the experts on matriarchy or non-patriarchal relations accentuate:
The search [for a matriarchy] does not imply inverting the common reality, changing it for the domination of the other sex, in this case domination by women. The matriarchal structure, by definition, excludes this type of power relations."
What Bennholdt-Thomsen is implying is this: According to her definition of matriarchy, men and women share equal amounts of power. And though Bennholdt-Thomsen does not provide any further detail about men's role in a matriarchal society, Göttner-Abendroth, does: A woman's relationship with her husband is economically based, while her relationship with her lover is founded on emotion. "After marriage," Göttner-Abendroth writes, "the young man temporarily leaves the house of his mother, but does not have to go very far. In the evening, he goes to the neighboring house where his wife lives, and he returns at dawn. This form of marriage is called visiting marriage, and is restricted to the night. The matriarchal man has no right to live in the house of his wife."
http://matriarchy.info/index.php?option=...&Itemid=83
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matriarchy
http://www.hagia.de/de/matriarchy.html
EXCERPTS: Matriarchy is not the mirror image of patriarchy, where women rule over men - as common prejudice wants. Instead, matriarchies are mother-centered societies, and they build on maternal values: nurturing, nurturing, caring, peacekeeping; i.e., motherhood in the broadest sense. These values apply to all, for mothers and non-mothers, for women and men alike. In matriarchal societies, "equality" does not mean equalizing differences. Natural differences that exist between the sexes and generations are respected and honored, but they are not used to create hierarchies (egalitarian society). [...] At the political level, decisions are made only by consensus, that is unanimity. The consensus finding begins as a consultation in the individual clan houses and will continue at the village or regional level as needed....
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[*] (flip-side)
Randomly selected instances of the expression "patriarchal worldview" in literature:
His remark, which comes not many days after the Goa Chief Minister Laxmikant Parsekar, shocked the nation by asking agitating nurses of his state to sit in the shade so that they didn't get dark and hurt their marital prospects, betrays the patriarchal worldview that complements a fanatical brand of politics.
https://www.thefreelibrary.com/No+countr...0407889605
In practice that generally means oppressing women and reversing the rights that they have gained even under the highly flawed postcolonial Arab state system. In the crudest patriarchal worldview, protecting the country means defending the home and family, and especially 'protecting' women. And that, in turn, means men and male-dominated society have to control and repress women, especially when it comes to sexual and domestic rights.
https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Brotherho...0323559544
Cultural safety nursing arose out of social protest movements of the 1980s. This was the time when issues of identity, gender, and racism were brought to the fore by different groups and challenged a dominant patriarchal worldview. Years of attempts by Maori to maintain their rights and recognition of sovereignty set out in the 1840 te Tiriti o Waitangi were overshadowed by the dominance of western patriarchal views of how the world and the people in it should be. This led to inequity in health care where Maori were unable to enjoy the same level of care as Pakeha. A primary aim of cultural safety was to draw attention to the power health professionals had in determining health care outcomes for people using health services.
https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Making+a+...0290856191
Popovic's translation provides no such remarks. More precisely, he compounded the distortion of the words and meanings of the story, translating in contradiction to the original text. Popovic did not adequately understand Lazarevic's story and that is why he interpreted it incorrectly. Just like other interpreters, Pavle Popovic burdened Lazarevic's story with his own cultural baggage, which was centered upon a patriarchal worldview, in spite of the story's more liberal and free-spirited nature.
https://www.thefreelibrary.com/On+the+En...0332657788
Allen argues that these "tribal worldviews are more similar to one another than any of them are to the patriarchal worldview, and they have a better record of survival." These ancient cultures assume collaborative, rather than individualized or isolated, teaching and learning.
https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Teaching+...0111848874
Some Catholics may feel that such devotions no longer hold a place in the life of faith as understood since the Second Vatican Council. But recent scholars have pointed to several key ideas related to Marian apparitions that have a modern appeal. Among them are:
* the role of personal religious experience in relation to the church's public worship,
* the need for new symbols to express each new generation of the faithful,
* the need for the feminine presence within a patriarchal worldview,
* the role of "apocalyptic" or hidden mysteries within a society that is perhaps too comfortable and self-assured,
* and the balance of personal testimony in relation to official teaching of the hierarchical church.
https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Immaculat...0145157897
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