In North India, Hinduism asserted patriarchal control within the family, leading to increased subordination of women.
Tony Williams argues that the film's plot signified the results of the "victory of patriarchal corporate control."
Democracy in Iran also means working free of what one student called "the culture of dictatorship," a floating web of patriarchal controls over private life.
Despite 'tinkering' with the texts, we see a challenge to patriarchal control and the centrality of men.
Italian men killed family members to save a gender-based ideal of respectability that entailed patriarchal control over women and family reputation.
They are advancing criticisms of inequalities and forms of oppression, neoliberal economic policies, unsustainable economic growth and consumption, and patriarchal controls over women.
It denounced that system of patriarchal control even as it warmly related family gatherings, literary diversions and festivities.
There are points in the play, however, when there is an absence of patriarchal control.
The state championed women's rights so they could substitute State control for patriarchal control of women.