Two: they're matriarchal and they hunt in packs like wolves.
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Before colonialism, indigenous societies on Turtle Island were prominently matriarchal.
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At its heart are a wisecracking editor and matriarchal publisher.
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He makes enemies of the Cirinists, a group of matriarchal fanatics.
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Marvel seems to want to put her in a matriarchal role.
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Here Caliban becomes the embodiment of male resentment toward matriarchal structures.
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Those films helped establish his reputation for creating strong matriarchal characters.
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These remote, agricultural communities are regarded as Europe's last matriarchal society.
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Thompson reprises her role from the Disney film as the matriarchal teapot.
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Again, a matriarchal tragedy sends our sisterly heroines on their magical adventure.
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My personal history is matriarchal, as I was raised by two women.
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Folded towels, stacked remotes, and hanging laundry become a visual matriarchal ode.
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And I don't believe our culture should be a matriarchal one, either.
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Within their close-knit matriarchal herds, they cooperate and make group decisions.
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Another unapproved minority is the Mosuo, a matriarchal group of around 40,000 people.
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Months after she first made contact, I decided to join her matriarchal sect.
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MADEA was the matriarchal character created by the actor and comedian Tyler Perry.
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Echoes of the matriarchal cultures that dominated prehistory lurk in our collective unconscious.
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And Olenna ensured her matriarchal-heavy house's survived for as long as it did.
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She bequeathed "a memory of a matriarchal society in Central Asia," says Saodat Ismailova.
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But we should not have to succumb to the binary of patriarchal or matriarchal.
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He married into one of America's most publicized and controversial matriarchal families, the Kardashians.
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And I love that the game attempted to represent a strong, proud matriarchal society.
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He was inspired by the Mosuo, a small matriarchal tribe in far-western China.
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Agnes Pelton was a lifelong seeker whose matriarchal, artistic household set her aesthetic course.
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Although spotted hyenas live in matriarchal social groups, striped hyenas are thought to be solitary.
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Many indigenous cultures are matriarchal and were not respected or understood by patriarchal European societies.
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These gentle giants have created the utopian matriarchal society of all our hopes and dreams.
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If you want things to run well, we suggest having Mars become a matriarchal society.
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The Gelflings are a matriarchal society, which means each clan has a Maudra (or queen).
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"We are a matriarchal society, always have been," said one member of the Lakota Nation.
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Read: Wonder Woman Was Created by a Feminist Bondage Fetishist Who Wanted a Matriarchal Utopia
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The Society of Cousins is one such example, exploring how a matriarchal society would practically operate.
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It's an unglamorous job with matriarchal overtones, which is why managers don't want to do it.
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Unlike most other mammals, spotted hyenas (Crocuta crocuta) live in matriarchal societies led by alpha females.
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The origins of the Women's Traditional Nightshirt(s) is a close-kept secret of matriarchal lineage.
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The head of our matriarchal crew died this past February, almost a year before my wedding.
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These matriarchal symbols envision a world where the qualities of Chinese womanhood are envied and respected.
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Feel this incredible nurture, soak it in… Watch me form new nests, we've made a matriarchal dome.
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The money they made diving is probably the reason parts of Jeju have a matriarchal family structure.
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His heroine, Aurora Greenway, a caustic Houston widow with Connecticut roots, is quick-witted, amorous and matriarchal.
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These goddess figures, sometimes colored with gold leaf and stoneware, resemble ancient totems from a matriarchal civilization.
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William Marston, her creator, believed that female sexual oomph could lead both men and women to matriarchal utopia.
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The thought is that mammoths, like today's elephants, lived in matriarchal societies where adult females protected the young.
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Justine Kurland's photography combats the modern female ideal and collects utopian fragments from a matriarchal Garden of Eden.
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This is a family in which the sons lust Oedipally after matriarchal figures because they never learned another way.
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Native Renewables is led by Navajo and Hopi women, which resonates with locals, because the Navajo are traditionally matriarchal.
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In the 22nd century, the Moon is covered by a series of city-states, including the matriarchal Society of Cousins.
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The film also depicts her disinclination or inability to adhere to a conventional matriarchal mode as something to shudder at.
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Some folks say that, because social groups of macaque monkeys are matriarchal, the macaques are more mature and relationship-oriented.
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Killer whale groups are matriarchal, with sons and daughters living with their mothers, but not their fathers, throughout their lives.
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This makes for an intimate look at a matriarchal community that, to some extent, disappeared with the rise of hospital births.
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Homages to matriarchal relationships were enlivened in sculptural works as well, like crocheted wire breasts sculpted from photos by Ashley Babcock.
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Hyenas run a successful matriarchal society, but are they illustrating a fundamental contradiction to feminism by adopting the guise of males?
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The Sahrawis are a matriarchal society, descended from nomadic Berber tribes in which women handled household finances and ran local communities.
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But unlike their cousins, bonobos have never been known to kill their own kind and, moreover, they live in matriarchal societies.
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The indigenous, matriarchal Lenapes got short shrift; Quakers and Jews were not accepted originally, until the West India Company overruled Gov.
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So is the fact that carpenter ants are a matriarchal society — male drones mate with a queen, and die shortly thereafter.
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Nashira is a matriarchal village set up in 2003 by Angela Cuevas de Dolmetsch to provide free housing for vulnerable women.
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But, when you pull back, the unapologetically Latinx-friendly show isn't alone when it comes to its loving obsession with matriarchal bonds.
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I'm currently finishing up John Kessel's fantastic novel The Moon and the Other, about civilization on the moon, matriarchal societies, and individuality.
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Many have kept the jaunty theme tune and picked an elderly, matriarchal judge similar to Mary Berry, a previous judge of GBBO.
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Above all else, the show celebrated a strong, matriarchal woman in a leading role, something we need more of in our country.
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The utopian matriarchal society of all our hopes and dreams Elephant females live together with their young in tight-knit family groups.
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Afterward, he said, the adult ducks go off to molt their feathers, leaving their broods in the care of a matriarchal female.
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Their matriarchal community was created to be the opposite of Greek society and, more than anything, they represented the unknown and the unfamiliar.
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Presumably that refers the current ABC megahit show and not a pre-Colonial matriarchal society in Latin America, but that sounds equally awesome.
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But scientists do know that the van-sized creatures tend to live in matriarchal family groups of 20 to as many as 100 individuals.
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The film, however, presents them as an encapsulation of the Wakandan ideal that, "the matriarchal and patriarchal must stand side by side," said Gurira.
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Albertine genuinely thanks her mother for her anger since it was all that she had while growing up in a working class, matriarchal home.
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The question that I have is even if there is a matriarchal revolution, is it actually for the betterment of the people in Westeros?
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Madonna was more suited to the harder beat of "Batuka" a song based on the matriarchal, call-and-response Cape Verdean tradition of batuque.
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The entire museum will be a fully encyclopedic museum because we're going to be hearing not only the patriarchal, but also the matriarchal view.
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While this structure is undeniably more beneficial for women than the patriarchal family structure, it's also not the matriarchal utopia envisioned by the outside world.
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It's a way of stating that we as women need not conform to masculine ideals and emphasize the power and value of a matriarchal model.
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Female characters, matriarchal families and single mothers loom large in her story, whereas most conversations about this group, "default to a male voice" she said.
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The image is part of the series Juchitán of the Women (1979–86) in which Iturbide documented the indigenous, matriarchal culture of Juchitán, in southern Mexico.
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This subculture dated back to Black Harlem in the Roaring Twenties, but the House of LaBeija brought the competition and the matriarchal house system to it.
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The all-encompassing grandeur of Norma's music, which ranges from the bel-canto radiance of "Casta diva" to steely, Isolde-like blasts, evokes a matriarchal age.
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They wear a streak of red makeup across their face with three dots below it, symbolizing three matriarchal generations: the grandmother, the mother and the self.
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Her ethnic ensembles, famously inspired by Oaxaca's Tehuana, a matriarchal society, dismissed de rigueur looks dictated by Parisian designers and the soulless mass production of clothing.
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While abuse of women is almost universal in some parts of the country, other areas have matriarchal traditions, with land passed down from mother to daughter.
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The site being excavated was to conform to his dreams of a pacifist, matriarchal, free-spirited civilization, nothing like the Europe outside tumbling into world war.
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Tish's family, anchored by the matriarchal Sharon (Regina King), embraces the courtship, but Fonny's Bible-thumping mother (Aunjanue Ellis) and her teenage daughters consider it a sin.
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It was less a query than an aside, an addendum to other remarks she'd made about the Double Dutch and matriarchal love of her childhood in Chicago.
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Like the traditional female facial tattoos I photographed on women in the Middle East and North Africa, the Queen of Sheba is a legendary symbol of matriarchal power.
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The critically acclaimed Viola Davis stars as Annalise Keating, a matriarchal law professor at a prestigious university who becomes entrenched in a murder plot with five interning students.
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Military spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Jo-Ar Herrera said the 'Maranao' clan, to which the Mautes belong, has a matriarchal tradition, and so their mother played a central role.
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One such colony is the Society of Cousins, a matriarchal settlement in which men are disenfranchised, urged to focus on personal pursuits such as the arts or sports.
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Though Madame Caramel shares a longing for a matriarchal society and keen awareness of Man's mistakes, she practices female supremacy on a micro level—in her personal relationships.
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That's a shame, because the haenyeos, whose traditional role at the center of a matriarchal society goes unexplored, could have been more than prompts for a personal essay.
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Yes, everyone, the U.S.-born actress-turned-future-Duchess has made an official appearance with the matriarchal match of our dreams — and she couldn't have looked better doing it.
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It's so interesting that they seem to be setting up this matriarchal revolution — do you think this is something that can be sustained, or is even for the best?
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"She still has matriarchal capability, because she was the first lady of Arkansas, the first lady of the country, a United States senator and secretary of State," said Rep.
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Archaeological evidence suggests that God was considered female for the first 200,000 years of human life on earth, even if male-dominated religions sought to displace the matriarchal order.
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In this picturesque (shot by cinematography great Christian Matras) matriarchal world where men are rarely around lies factions and battlelines between the two headmistresses and the female pupils they favor.
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Vivian's Garden, (2017) Rosalind Nashashibi's empathetic approach to a matriarchal complicity, portrays the symbiotic lives of voluntary exiles Vivian Suter and her mother Elisabeth Wild in the jungles of Guatemala.
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Without much explanation, the matriarchal leaders of her society promise her in marriage to a man from another ark, the Pole, which is as cold and foreboding as it sounds.
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So what can a country paralyzed by violence learn from matriarchal leadership, a new approach to eradicating poverty through gifting land, and a fervent desire for enterprise and self-sufficiency?
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This report, which blindly repeated stereotypes of blacks as intellectually and socially inferior to whites, insisted that the matriarchal structure of these units led to the weakening of black men.
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She would bring Kahlo huipiles (traditional and brightly colored Mexican garments), which became part of the artist's iconic look, mirroring the Tehuana women who were part of a powerful matriarchal community.
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So expect romance and desire, secrets, betrayals, and political machinations, also matriarchal owl cults, a diverse cast of complicated characters, some boys kissing, and most of all, a giant killer bird.
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Needleporn was "the most grandmotherly, matriarchal way to depict aggressive queer sex in a way that felt wholesome and was not at all diluting the sexuality of it," Nutman told Mic.
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I realized: oh, this is a political issue, because instead of focusing on the intersectional-socialist-matriarchal revolution I've been focusing on whether or not what just happened was a date.
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"I come from a matriarchal line of women who have always been very involved politically and socially," she said, referring also to her grandmother, who worked with indigenous communities in Puebla, Mexico.
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But Elliott has his two best friends at his side — one a matriarchal elf princess, the other a quiet jock with a secret — and he isn't about to play by the rules.
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"Sri Lanka was a matriarchal country before the colonists came and brought in their Christian and Victorian values," said Rosanna Flamer-Caldera, founder of Equal Ground, a gay rights group in Sri Lanka.
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Instead of fantasizing about sexual utopias in nuclear bunkers, though, she keeps interrupting (amusingly at first, and then tiresomely) with lengthy monologues about matriarchal orders in the animal kingdom, specifically among the bonobos.
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Listening to a woman preparing food, and feeling reunited with Valerie, my mind started to dwell on my mother, my grandmother, and my great-grandmother—the matriarchal line of women in my family.
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The "red pill" offers up a tangible, external enemy, and the subsequent opportunity to wallow in self-pity about the unfairness of a supposedly matriarchal society that won't let you get your end away.
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The plot is a kind of matriarchal Scarface: After her drug-dealer boyfriend betrays his bosses and gets shot, Teresa goes on the run from the cartel, eventually beating them at their own game.
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In her 20s, Ms. Kahlo started wearing her own interpretation of traditional Tehuana dress: full skirts, embroidered blouses and regal coiffure associated with a matriarchal society from the Isthmus of Tehuantepec in Oaxaca, Mexico.
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In a rare matriarchal cinematic event, the actress Lea Thompson directs her two daughters, Madelyn and Zoey Deutch, in "The Year of Spectacular Men," a comedy about sisters set adrift for their terrible 20s.
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When the play begins, the family is assembled at the comfortably upholstered apartment occupied by the matriarchal Grandma Emilia Merz (Caroline Gruber) and her son, Hermann (Adrian Scarborough), who runs the family textile business.
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Were this all there was to elephant society, it would still be quite complex by mammalian standards—similar in scope to that of lions, which also live in matriarchal family groups that eject maturing males.
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Like most convincingly surreal photographs, Iturbide's are often ostensibly about something else: the lives of Zapotec people in the matriarchal communities of Juchitán, for instance, or the customs of Seri people in the Sonoran Desert.
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On the couple's first night out, Anna, a music historian whose thesis draft has the mind-melting title "Female Composers + Feminism – Matriarchal Pedagogy = Feminist Composers" meets the composer-rocker of her dreams, Dane (François Arnaud).
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It's a matriarchal organization: Vicky, the president, artistic director, and main "Nutcracker" choreographer, is assisted by her daughters, Matina (first vice president, ballet mistress, and co-choreographer of "The Nutcracker") and Despina (second vice president).
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"What's perfect about the union of the Wooster Group and the Shakers is that both are matriarchal, both are about discipline and rigor and work," McDormand explained to me over drinks with Valk and LeCompte.
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At a moment when assault and harassment revelations are creeping across male-dominated industries like so much unwanted mold, independent American cheese making stands as an obvious if undersung exemplar of the ultimate matriarchal workplace.
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The large-breasted representative of a highly evolved, matriarchal alien race has a very complex (and tragic) family history, but the neckline of her outfit is open all the way down to her belly button.
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"A matriarchal society would be one in which women are in power over men, and where everything is the converse of a patriarchal society," said Furman University anthropologist Tami Blumenfield, who specializes in Chinese minority cultures.
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Umoja, which means "unity" in Swahili, is quite literally a no man's land, and the matriarchal refuge is now home to the Samburu women who no longer want to suffer abuses at the hands of men.
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All we know is that Lohan is poised to become the next doyenne of reality TV drama, following in the footsteps of Lisa Vanderpump as a matriarchal boss both cracking the whip and stirring the pot.
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Wagers's tale manages to freshen this somewhat by discarding the usual gender and cultural trappings — for example, making the hereditary monarchy matriarchal and flavoring Indranan society with the customs of ancient India in lieu of old Britannia.
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A secret community of divine witches who are concentrating on manifesting a matriarchal tech society through intention and belief sounds relieving, the kind of thing I want to be real, like a return to a primordial time.
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We spent a week in Lugu Lake with three generations of Mosuo women to find out if women truly are in charge and if cultural changes from a younger generation threaten the survival of the traditional matriarchal society.
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Dyani and Ali are currently raising funds for MAMI, an art exhibition and lecture series at the Knockdown Center inspired by Mami Wata, a pantheon of water deities that originates from West and Central African matriarchal spiritual systems.
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Ms. Ellis, who spent her childhood picking cotton in rural north Louisiana and later worked at a hospital in Houston, was a matriarchal figure in an extended clan — she had seven siblings, six children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
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Stuffed cabbages were the highlight of every family gathering when I was a kid, and my grandmother's recipe — handed down through who knows how many matriarchal branches before her — was mostly a pot of ground beef and pork.
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Its matriarchal narrative — the struggles and rivalries are between women, the men are all dolts, victims, or playthings — makes what could have easily been exploitative in the hands of another director feel more like a psychedelically gynocentric safe space.
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JUCHITAN, Mexico (Reuters) - Destruction wrought by Mexico's massive earthquake has put a spotlight on the quasi-matriarchal indigenous traditions of the worst affected town, with women and third-gender 'muxes' playing a leading role in the aftermath of the disaster.
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Mikio Naruse allows for a nuanced matriarchal depiction in his 1956 black-and-white drama Flowing, an everyday depiction of geishas in the mundane part of their lives and the generational vocation it becomes for one mother and daughter duo.
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The mythology of Oism — supposedly founded in the 19643s in upstate New York (a hotbed of self-created religions) by Annie O'Wooten — evokes that of Mormonism and similar belief systems, with a significant switch to matriarchal leadership and a female deity.
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Umoja, which means "unity" in Swahili, is quite literally a no man's land, and the matriarchal refuge is now home to the Samburu women who no longer want to suffer abuses, like genital mutilation and forced marriages, at the hands of men.
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One such colony is The Society of Cousins, a matriarchal settlement in which men are encouraged to pursue a range of personal pursuits and sexual freedom, but are barred from voting or holding political office, unless they're part of the work force.
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"Despite the firm matriarchal icons of the monarchy such as Queen Elizabeth II and Queen Victoria, women lower down the ranking who exercise their own singular power have not fared well in majesty; it is not part of the fairy tale," she writes.
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Set for release on the PS4 on February 28, the game is set in a "post-post apocalyptic" Earth, as described by its creators, and follows a young huntress named Aloy as she searches for her origins in a matriarchal hunter-gatherer society.
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And Brea (voiced by The Witch's Anya Taylor-Joy, puppeteered by Alice Dinnean), a princess to one of the planet's matriarchal Gelfling clans, has been having visions that point her toward a way to heal the planet before the blight spreads further.
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As we moved from small, polytheistic, matriarchal societies to large, monotheistic, patriarchal societies, female plant medicine providers became frequent targets of witch hunts and other coordinated campaigns of eradication, as they represented a serious threat to both "religion" and "medicine," both male-dominated fields.
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I have tried so hard not to rule them from the baleful matriarchal domestic throne — not to make an awful kind of power out of powerlessness — that I sometimes wonder whether I have done something much worse, which is make myself of no importance.
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Discovered at the sites are a number of obese clay and limestone figures, colloquially deemed the Fat Ladies of Malta or the Venuses of Malta, which have led people to speculate about a goddess-worshiping or matriarchal culture on the island in prehistoric times.
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So I want to talk to you about your ideas behind [the film]… In [it] you speak about cave girls as a defense mechanism against street harassment by men and you fantasize a matriarchal society free of all men in a Stone Age context.
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Many scholars believe that Vietnam was a largely matriarchal society before a period of Chinese conquest that began in 111 BC. A long history of wars with China, and later France and America, sucked women into the workforce, as more men than women were maimed or killed.
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But when custom requires that she kill her newborn baby, Li-yan can't go through with it, and instead smuggles the child to an orphanage, along with a tea cake made from the tea grove that has been handed down her matriarchal line for 33 generations.
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The show, which debuts on Paramount Network on June 7, is loosely based on Kathleen Richards, the bold matriarchal figure for three of Beverly Hills' most famous ladies: Kim Richards, Kathy Hilton (Paris and Nicky's mom), and Kyle Richards, who serves on the series as a co-executive producer.
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The artist collective #SNATCHPOWER, for example, stages a futurist matriarchal society of Black women in an image from their short film Channeling Calafia (2018), while Mely Barragán's series of banners, "Fact for Fiction" (2018), re-appropriates translated quotes from Las sergas de Esplandián as celebrations of powerful, militant women.
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It is one of several species of animals where the females run the show, and while comparing human societies to animals is problematic (more on that later), reflecting on totally matriarchal hyenas can at least remind us that it's not a steadfast rule that males have to be #1.
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After convincing the matriarchal leader of the village to let her lead a convoy back to Alexandria, Tara finds herself running from two renegade women intent on keeping their home a well-kept secret, even if it means defying orders and killing the visitor who might lead the Saviors back.
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It's no mistake that episode is the same one in which Elizabeth bucks protocol to visit her dying mother in Berlin, to say goodbye but also to introduce her daughter (and fledgling protégé) Paige, to forge an in-the-flesh matriarchal line among the women that will further bind them all to the motherland.
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There's Starr Saphir, the flinty matriarchal figure who led birders even as she became significantly ill with cancer, and Chris Cooper, 55, a biomedical editor who birds by ear (using birdsong to identify his quarry) and whose elegiac exposition on what he called the "7 pleasures of birding" pops up the all over the internet.
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Before review code even came in, I was scouring YouTube videos from streamers that received extra-early copies of the game so I could absorb all of my options: Eight different possible family heritages, from the honor-bound Draconis Combine to the matriarchal Magistracy of Canopus to the mysterious "Deep Periphery" of the galaxy.
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But at a time when Western women are marching for their rights; when media coverage has shed long-overdue light on the various horrors women face in the workplace, from sexual harassment to the pay gap; and egalitarian marriages can still somehow feel out of reach — isn't it natural that we might be drawn to the escapist fantasy of a matriarchal society?
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Here are a few selected documentaries on issues affecting women today and every day, including: The devastatingly unequal access to reproductive health care, the maternity leave crisis impacting mothers and families in America, the role of beauty pageants in women's prisons amid the rapid expansion of the prison industrial complex in Brazil, and the rise and fall of matriarchal societies in Eastern Africa and rural China.
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Two other spots are inspired by South Korea's Jeju Island, where the female divers, known as haenyeo, have built a semi-matriarchal, seafood-heavy culture: At Jeju Noodle Bar in the West Village, try bonito-broth fish ramyun, the Korean version of Japanese ramen; and at Haenyeo in Park Slope, where the veteran chef Jenny Kwak thrillingly employs shellfish and international flavors to build standout dishes, don't miss the rice-cake queso fundido.
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The mercantile purse of the Seven Kingdoms, the opportunistic and matriarchal flower-people of House Tyrell have always been a great adversary for the Lannisters and the fact that last season ended with Margaery and Loras in chains, Lady Olenna royally pissed, and Mace freestyling at the Iron Bank means the rivalry between Westeros' two most bourgeois houses is about to go from a loaded drawing-room comedy to a balls-out War of the Roses.
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