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Article: Matriarchies as Societies of Peace: re-thinking matriarchy.(women and peace)(Essay)
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- July 1, 2008
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THE RESEARCH FINDINGS of modern matriarchal studies contradict the ideology of universal male dominance and universal patriarchy. Modern matriarchal studies is concerned with investigating and presenting nonpatriarchal societies: those that have existed in the past and those that are, to some degree, still with us now. All over the world today, indigenous peoples in Asia, Africa, the Americas and the Pacific area foster traditional cultures that show matriarchal patterns. These patterns are not just a reversal of patriarchy, with women somehow ruling over men--as the usual misinterpretation would have it--rather they are, without exception, gender-egalitarian societies, ...