patriarchal society• The article, instead, juxtaposes the practice with the important role played by women in that patriarchal society.• The relationships between persons of which the bible tells are relations between people existing in a patriarchal society.• Like women in patriarchal societies, Demeter is powerless to wage war against Olympus.• The role of education in a patriarchal society is, therefore, to transmit a dominantideology: that of masculinesuperiority.• Many of these taboosderive from patriarchal societies taking the power of women and turning it on its head.• Older women, who had never been much valued in a patriarchal society, were especially singled out for blame.• It is an overwhelmingly patriarchal society, where women still curtsy to men.