One major question he does not quite answer for us is why patriarchal traditions would overpower matriarchal ones.
The writings of four anthropologists are reanalysed using the matriarchal gaze.
With the father constantly at risk of being sold to another owner, a matriarchal family structure became almost inevitable.
Before the system of ie had fully emerged, it was not exclusively matriarchal, but both matriarchal and patriarchal.
As women live longer than men, the businesses will be increasingly concentrated into the hands of grandma—the matriarchal society.
They also tend, perhaps, to have a somewhat matriarchal society.
They have too great a matriarchal background and too old and deep-seated a religion for it.
Often in our matriarchal society the wife keeps the car and the husband commutes by train.