Kyriarchy (`rule by a lord`) is a social system or set of connecting social systems built around domination, oppression, and submission. The word itself is a neologism coined by Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza in 1992 to describe her theory of interconnected, interacting, and self-extending systems of domination and submission, in which a single i..... Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyriarchy