English-Italian translations for patriarchy

• patriarcato
  Signor Presidente, nella Kvinnohistorisk uppslagsbok, ossia l'enciclopedia storica delle donne, alla voce Patriarcato si legge: Mr President, in the Swedish Encyclopaedia of Women' s History, the entry under the heading Patriarchy reads as follows:
  Le nostre società, ancora pervase dal patriarcato, sono caratterizzate dal violento ritorno della stigmatizzazione per motivi religiosi, e le donne sono ancora le prime vittime di questa involuzione.The patriarchy still completely pervades our societies. They are now scarred by the forceful return of stigmatisation on religious grounds, and women are forever the main victims of these changes.

Definition of patriarchy

• A social system in which the father is head of the household, having authority over women and children, and in which lineage is traced through the male line
• The office of a patriarch; a patriarchate

Related words

• heteropatriarchy
• homopatriarchy
• cisheteropatriarchy