Lastly, religion is represented as fostering the cause of women, chiefly through its mysteries assigning a divine character, as it were, to motherdom as compared with fatherdom.
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Motherdom
Synonyms for "motherdom"
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That the Aeschylean Oresteia turns on the conflict between motherdom and fatherdom is notorious.
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Bachofen, the protagonist of the "mother-right" theory in the last century, observed that "motherdom is related to the idea of the day-bearing night, as fatherdom is to light sprung from the union of the sun with mother night."
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