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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But Fromm interprets it as a conflict between matriarchy and patriarchy.
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He found no evidence that a matriarchy had ever existed or is in any way emerging today.
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In particular he scrutinized every report of an alleged matriarchy , where women were said to hold political power.
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It has been fashionable in the last twenty years to suggest that there was in ancient history a utopian matriarchy .
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The idea apparently stems from that old belief in matriarchy as the only alternative to patriarchy.
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This is the matriarchy telling its own story.