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Horgonyhely by contemporary Hungarian writer Anita Moskát shows an example of how to create matriarchy in fiction.
In this story, there is a specific magical situation:
- people are anchored to the area where they were born (a few square kilometers around the exact place where they came into the world)
- only pregnant women are able to move freely (their new anchor point after birth will be the place they give birth)
This gives power to women through:
- being able to dominate trade, cross-village government, cross-village information flow, agriculture outside village boundaries, etc.
- being able to physically punish men and non-pregnant women by just dragging them far from their anchor point, which causes suffering and ultimately death
- (non-complying pregnant women can be punished simply by shunning)
Related
- For more examples, see: hub-different-ways-to-create-matriarchy-in-a-fiction
- Women can exercise physical dominance over men if they organize and outnumber - see the Gulabi Gang in India.
- This is also the answer of the age-old misogynist question: who would protect women from wild animals if there wouldn’t be men around?