gynarchy
Women hold power
Gynarchy is government or rule by women—the female counterpart to patriarchy.
The term appears mostly in political theory, feminist discourse, and speculative fiction imagining societies where women hold institutional power: The novel depicted a gynarchy where men were excluded from political office.
Sometimes used in BDSM contexts to describe female-dominant relationship dynamics.
Female-dominated social system
- ruleGoverning principle or standard
- authorityPower to enforce obedience
- sovereigntySupreme independent authority
- dominionAuthority to rule
queendom · reign · supremacy · hegemony · government · regime · administration · statecraft
Formidable warlike woman
- goddessFemale sacred being
- queenMost powerful chess piece
- queendomTerritory ruled by queen
- ThemysciraFictional Amazonian island nation
Amazonia · Hippolyta · Diana · Athena · Hera · Wakanda · mythology · legend
Legal equality for females
- gender equalityEqual treatment regardless sex
- feministGender equality proponent
- suffrageRight to cast ballots
- patriarchyMale-dominated social order
misogyny · sexism · glass ceiling · intersectionality · Simone de Beauvoir · Gloria Steinem · Betty Friedan · reproductive rights
Rule by the people
- republicState with elected leaders
- oligarchyRule by few
- autocracyRule by one
- theocracyRule by religious authority
aristocracy · monarchy · federalism · collectivism · absolutism · despotism · tyranny · anarchy
Descended through maternal line
- lineageDescent from progenitors
- kinshipState of being related
- inheritanceProperty received from ancestors
- ancestressFemale from whom one descends
foremothers · motherland · maternal · motherhood · matron · dynasty · descent · bloodline
matriarchy
Female-dominated social system
- ruleGoverning principle or standard
- authorityPower to enforce obedience
- sovereigntySupreme independent authority
dominion · queendom · reign · supremacy · hegemony · government · regime · administration · statecraft · polity
amazon
Formidable warlike woman
Themyscira · Amazonia · Hippolyta · Diana · Athena · Hera · Wakanda · mythology · legend · utopia
women's rights
Legal equality for females
- gender equalityEqual treatment regardless sex
- feministGender equality proponent
- suffrageRight to cast ballots
patriarchy · misogyny · sexism · glass ceiling · intersectionality · Simone de Beauvoir · Gloria Steinem · Betty Friedan · reproductive rights · equal pay
democracy
Rule by the people
theocracy · aristocracy · monarchy · federalism · collectivism · absolutism · despotism · tyranny · anarchy · egalitarianism
matrilineal
Descended through maternal line
- lineageDescent from progenitors
- kinshipState of being related
- inheritanceProperty received from ancestors
ancestress · foremothers · motherland · maternal · motherhood · matron · dynasty · descent · bloodline · family line
gynarchyegalitarianism
Philosophy of universal equality
gender equality · democracy · anarchy · egalitarian society · meritocracy