matriarchate

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noun a form of social organization in which a female is the family head and title is traced through the female line

From matriarch + -ate (forms nouns denoting rank or office, a system ruled by people of such office), modeled after patriarchate.

“The primitive government was the Matriarchate. — Ann Veronica: A Modern Love Story, H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
Footnote 595: Denied as a literal fact, as an affair of government and authority, the matriarchate, so called, is sufficiently proved as the early form of family life. — The Beginnings of Poetry, Francis Barton Gummere
It was through reading his work, "The Ethic of Free Thought," that the Matriarchate made such a deep impression on my mind and moved me to write a tract on the subject. — Eighty Years and More; Reminiscences 1815-1897, Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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