Kyriarchy

Quick meaning: Kyriarchy is a noun meaning A system of ruling and oppression in which many people may interact and act as oppressor or oppressed.

Meaning

A system of ruling and oppression in which many people may interact and act as oppressor or oppressed.

Example Sentences

Kyriarchy considers the power structures that intersectionality produces (Osborne, 2015). Kyriarchy concerns structural power and refers to social systems that dominate and oppress.

The idea of kyriarchy or kyriocentrism acknowledges the complex interstructures of domination that include sexist practices and social arrangements but contextualizes and situates them within a wider scope of oppression.

As a Palestinian woman, she [Jean Zaru] has experienced what Asian postcolonial feminist theologian Kwok Pui Lan names as the multiple kyriarchies (or interlocking layers of oppressions) faced by those in colonized lands.

[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.

Word Forms

• kyriarchies

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include polycracy, hyperarchy, ptochocracy, matriarchy, tyranny, mediacracy.

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