matrifocal

Like most post-plantation societies, Haiti is traditionally "matrifocal" -- with the household unit centering on the mother and where she lives.

Mark Schuller: Did You Drink Soup? Strains on Solidarity in Haiti Mark Schuller 2012

Like most post-plantation societies, Haiti is traditionally "matrifocal" -- with the household unit centering on the mother and where she lives.

Mark Schuller: Did You Drink Soup? Strains on Solidarity in Haiti Mark Schuller 2012

No - but it does suggest an extremely high standard for the brands that will take on this "matrifocal" challenge.

Learned On Women by Andrea Learned 2008

So then I needed to study matrifocal societies to see how they worked.

The Research Readers Don’t See « 2009

They remained, for example, unflaggingly matrilineal and matrifocal into recent eras.

Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE 2008

Such an emphasis, or reasoning, for the * mwali life position would make far more obvious sociocultural sense in matrilineal and matrifocal societies than imagining that marriage and male sexual pleasure were most important.

Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE 2008

Or back to a time in history where people lived in peace with nature: back to matrifocal times.

Interview with Kim Antieau 2009

As to matrifocal societies, I would settle for an equifocal one.

Women in Politics | Mind on Fire 2008

For instance, it's too simplistic to say that Indo-European speakers were all patriarchal warriors and native Europeans were all matrifocal pacifists.

Archive 2007-10-01 2007

Then my mind wandered to how Marija Gimbutas and others have earned a bad rap for their insistence on skewing historical perspective with their matriarchal/matrifocal ideals of an 'Old Europe', i.e.

Matriarchy and women rulers 2007