I’m not talking about a fairytale matriarchy from long ago and far away. I’m talking about a matriarchy here and now in northern California. I live in one, though I imagine that some might say that it ...

Does matriarchy exist? Peggy Reeves Sanday says yes. For two decades, Ms. Sanday, a professor of anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania, has been studying gender in West Sumatra, Indonesia. In ...

Why are modern men such layabouts? It’s simple. When the family declines, men decline. A couple of years ago Rod Dreher wrote a column about this phenomenon. You can read it here. Quoting various ...

In a shocking turn of events, a binary societal structure based on the stereotypical attributes of one gender isn’t working out for everyone. Patriarchy, i.e. the current power structure that most of ...

For the last century, historians, anthropologists and other scholars have searched both human history and the continents to find a matriarchy—a society where the power was in the hands of women, not ...

Despite her history of progressive activism, including campaigning for Bernie Sanders and getting arrested for protesting the Dakota Access Pipeline, Shailene Woodley didn't previously identify as a ...

Ten years ago, Cynthia Eller offered a useful and long-overdue demolition of a mistaken idea that gained widespread currency in women’s studies and in some sectors of popular culture. In Ten years ago ...

Matriarchy: a social system in which the primary positions of power and leadership are held by women. The horror genre is, without a doubt, a matriarchy. Yes, there are male villains, famous and fun, ...