China – One of the World’s Last Matriarchies – Land Where Women Rule – Video
Author: WUNRN
Date: November 2, 2017
Photo – http://www.ilknowledge.com/2013/07/mosuo-tribe-womens-kingdom.html
2016 – China’s one-child policy led to millions of female infanticides—except in a lush valley known as the “Land Where Women Rule.” Located in the foothills of the Himalayas, Lugu Lake is home to China’s Mosuo matriarchy. The region’s 40,000 denizens have come up with a unique own family structure that puts women in charge. The Mosuo’s “walking marriages”—in which women can have as many boyfriends as they want throughout their lifetime—replace traditional monogamy and inheritance passes from mother to daughter.
Correspondent Milène Larsson spends a week in Lugu Lake with three generations of Mosuo women to find out what life is like in one of the world’s last matriarchies.
In the Mosuo households, the eldest females dominates every aspect of the daily lives, and are the principal providers for each household. Like the hearth, which is the center of Mosuo lives, the women are the center of matrilineal Mosuo society.