Patriarchal love
Love relationships shaped by patriarchal social structures in which male authority over females is assumed. Patriarchal love often treats women as property, dependents, or objects of male desire rather than autonomous agents.
Real World
The Taming of the Shrew dramatises patriarchal assumptions about marriage that were legally enshrined in Tudor England, where a husband had legal authority over his wife's body, property, and public conduct.
Exam Focus
For AO3 marks, specify the historical legal or social context that made patriarchal love normative — don't just assert patriarchy existed, prove it mattered.
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