Patriarchy

 

The concept of Patriarchy itself is not a contribution of feminist theories. Many social scientists in the nineteenth century wrote about it as a more civilized or complex form of organization compared to the primitive matriarchies1 . Engels referred to it as the earliest system of domination establishing that Patriarchy is “the world historical defeat of the female sex.”2 In this sense, it is said that Patriarchy was a form of political organization that distributed power unequally between men and women to the detriment of women. The Royal Academy of the Spanish Language Dictionary defines Patriarchy as “A primitive social organization in which authority is exercised by a male head of the family, extending this power even to distant relatives of the same lineage.”