fratriarchy

Noun

fratriarchy (countable and uncountable, plural fratriarchies)

1. A social system in which power is held by brothers.
   • Nevertheless, the institution of fratriarchy would have no separate status if it were merely a matter of the son's taking the place of the deceased father. Consequently, the parallel with Hebrew fratriarchy is closer still, for in both cases it would appear that the father, while still alive...1964, John Marshall Holt, The Patriarchs of Israel
   • This last problem received rather less attention than the previous three. a) The nature of family Koschaker perceived the family at Nuzi as a patriarchal one with vestigious remains of fratriarchy.1988, Katarzyna Grosz, The Archive of the Wullu Family, Museum Tusculanum Press, →ISBN, page 19
2. A power structure in which a fraternal group of men are dominant.
   • A recent example of this approach has been outlined by John Remy (1990) with patriarchy and fratriarchy seen as two arms or modes of a unitary system of dominance of rule by men. The relationship of the two modes may be antagonistic but ...2006, Jeff Hearn, Men In The Public Eye, Routledge, →ISBN
   • One way of framing homosociality between men is that of fratriarchy, which refers to male power associated with brotherly alliances and groups (Tallberg 2003). Isenberg (2013) defines it as a fusion of patriarchy and fraternity, ...2019, Professor Bob Pease, Facing Patriarchy: From a Violent Gender Order to a Culture of Peace, Zed Books Ltd., →ISBN
3. A hierarchical or discriminatory fraternity or fraternal interest group.
   • Hearn,for instance, describes bureaucracies as mixtures of patriarchal and fratriarchal organisations, where men meet in fratriarchies, but relate through patriarchal hierarchies (Hearn 1992). Fratriarchy's 'competitive bonding' is based ...2007, Michael Flood, Judith Kegan Gardiner, Bob Pease, Keith Pringle, International Encyclopedia of Men and Masculinities, Routledge, →ISBN
   • Fratriarchies are fraternal interest groups whose masculine practices serve to construct and reconstruct masculine hegemony. They foster masculine domination in a threefold manner by bringing men together, keeping men together, and putting women down.2009, Olympika