overstructure

Is this what a self-destructing overstructure looks like in its hubris just before its collapse?

The Volokh Conspiracy » “Profit” Is Not a Dirty Word: 2009

Is this what a self-destructing overstructure looks like in its hubris just before its collapse?

The Volokh Conspiracy » “Profit” Is Not a Dirty Word: 2009

Because I don't believe that the male-female power differential is as severe as some others believe my position is that men control the overstructure, women control the understructure: "the hand that rocks the cradle rules the world" I think that men and women are perfectly capable of commenting on each other's positions in the world.

Don't Hassle the Hoff--(or kiss him, either!) Steven Barnes 2008

I slept in a tent, and managed to keep my body warm by an enormous overstructure of blankets and coats; but I could not keep my head warm.

North America 1862

"my position is that men control the overstructure, women control the understructure: 'the hand that rocks the cradle rules the world'"

Don't Hassle the Hoff--(or kiss him, either!) Steven Barnes 2008

1 I never said men don't control more executive positions and overstructure power.

Response to the recent comments Steven Barnes 2008

1 I never said men don't control more executive positions and overstructure power.

Archive 2008-04-01 Steven Barnes 2008