Anti-patriarchal
of or relating to a , the male head of a family, tribe, community, church, order, etc.:
my father’s conservative, patriarchal ways.
characteristic of an ent-ty, family, church, etc., controlled by men:
the highly patriarchal mormon church.
adj.
mid-15c., “pertaining to a (church) patriarch,” from patriarch + -al, or else from late latin patriarchalis, from patriarcha.
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