Summary Of Pula Webster's Matriarchy: A Vision Of Power

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In Pula Webster’s ‘Matriarchy: A vision of power’ (in R. R. Reiter, ed., Toward an Anthropology of Women, 1975) described the relationship between power, gender and social structure with the description of five feminist authors. She described with the evaluation that, the social power is the main form of the social exclusion of women. She described that in matrilineal Iroquois the male member of the clan also held the power, in some cases that was more than the female leader of the clan or female member of the family. She said that in matriarchal society, the woman has the status only, but the power rests on the hand of the male. She described the methodology of the appreciation, that patriarchy was a result of the logical culmination of the