Nevertheless, the family remains patriarchal and a key institution in society.

"Not so long ago, marriage was viewed legally and culturally as a patriarchal institution in which the husband essentially owned his wife as chattel," Ms. Sommer said.

Many feminist lesbians long regarded marriage as an oppressive and patriarchal institution.

Most religions are such patriarchal institutions that that aspect of God is overlooked.

You mean this 2,000 year old patriarchal institution built by greedy white men has no consideration for the well being of poor black women?

And this is related, for example, to Daly's scorn for 'tokenism'- for those women who participate in what are seen as patriarchal institutions.

"Marriage is such a patriarchal institution in its history," Professor Tronto said.

Both of Wollstonecraft's novels criticize what she viewed as the patriarchal institution of marriage and its deleterious effects on women.

O'Brien's work identified the discovery of paternity as a pre-cursor to such patriarchal institutions as marriage and sole male rights to offspring.

Eady describes the documentary as propaganda intended to represent the Christian Church as "a wicked, patriarchal, misogynist institution"