Tyler becomes nostalgic for patriarchal power giving him control and creates Project Mayhem to achieve this.

The disciplined and disciplining paterfamilias, once seen as a model of his time and class, is transformed into a monster of patriarchal power at its most oppressive and insidious.

Men don't give up their patriarchal powers lightly, they had and many still have a great deal with infinite advantages.

She suggests that Freud was fully aware of the extent of patriarchal power.

Our aim is to break down patriarchal and hierarchical power within the family.

Millett, in Sexual Politics (1977), sees patriarchal power as something so historically all-embracing that it has totally dominated women's lives.

It was to be revered absolutely in all things and possessed "patriarchal power, honour, and authority".

Until recent times, Geg clan chiefs, or bajraktars, exercised patriarchal powers, arranged marriages, mediated quarrels, and meted out punishments.

An ironic one, too, given Paz's record as a critic of Mexico's addiction to patriarchal power.

It's a Catch-22, the Knicks' 37-year-old patriarchal power forward Buck Williams said.