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The following list includes societies that have been identified as matrilineal or matrilocal in ethnographic literature. "Matrilineal" means kinship is passed down through the maternal line. [1] The Akans of Ghana, West Africa, are Matrilineal. Akans are the largest ethnic group in Ghana.
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During the pulp era, matriarchal dystopias were relatively common, in which women-only or women-controlled societies were shown unfavourably. [1] In John Wyndham's Consider Her Ways (1956), male rule is shown as being repressive of women, but freedom from patriarchy is only possible in an authoritarian caste-based female-only society. [4]
Most anthropologists hold that there are no known societies that are unambiguously matriarchal, at least no matriarchal society that have completely excluded the opposite gender from roles of authority. [1] [61] [2] According to J. M. Adovasio, Olga Soffer, and Jake Page, no matriarchy with the element of exclusion is known to have existed. [57]
Helen Merrick described the battle of the sexes trope in science fiction, which arose with the rise of feminist issues in society. Also known as ‘dominant woman’ stories, ‘battle of the sexes’ stories often feature matriarchal societies in which women have overcome their patriarchal oppressors and achieved dominance.
The Bene Gesserit are a key social, religious, and political force in Frank Herbert's science fiction Dune universe. The matriarchal group is described as a secretive and exclusive sisterhood whose members train their bodies and minds through years of physical and mental conditioning to obtain superhuman powers and abilities that can seem magical to outsiders.
The society or its precursor at that time was matriarchal, and so the story is named after the leader of the family 'Nisha'. Here one can find a gradual transformation from a matriarchal society (the first two stories) to a patriarchal one (the rest), a gradual change from freedom to slavery, from acceptance of slavery to its loathing and the ...
In matriarchal societies and in Ceremony, if you are a woman, and older than the rest of the women in your family, you have the final say in every aspect of the family's life. In Ceremony , Grandma and Auntie have some struggles on what should be done about Tayo's illness, but in the end it is always Grandma who decides. [ 2 ]