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kyriarchies

kyriarchies is the plural of kyriarchy.

Meaning of kyriarchy

Noun

kyriarchy (usually uncountable, plural kyriarchies)

  1. (usually) A system of ruling and oppression in which many people may interact and act as oppressor or oppressed.
    • [F]eminist theologies must adopt a social analytic that can break through the sex/gender system's totalizing and mystifying dualistic frame of reference. An analytic of kyriarchy rather than simply an analytic of gender, I argued, provides a more adequate conceptual tool of analysis.1994, Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza, “And Mary Went into the Hill Country: Issues in Feminist Christology”, in Jesus: Miriam’s Child, Sophia’s Prophet: Critical Issues in Feminist Christology, London...

Questions about kyriarchies

What is kyriarchies the plural of?
Kyriarchies is the plural of kyriarchy.

Words near kyriarchies in the dictionary

  1. Kyriale
  2. kyriarchal
  3. kyriarchally
  4. kyriarchic
  5. kyriarchically
  6. kyriarchies
  7. kyriarchy
  8. kyrie
  9. kyrielle
  10. kyrielles
  11. kyries

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