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Almost, it might be said, it began in the beginning, and no doubt before the matriarchate period women were striving toward liberty, only to lose it after having for a while dominated man.

It was never patriarchate alone, nor yet solely matriarchate.

Much of the discredit that has fallen on the matriarchate has arisen, I am certain, through the impossibility of accepting Bachofen’s mythical account of its origin.

Fu-hi introduced matrimony; and in so doing he placed man as the husband at the head of the family and abolished the original matriarchate.

We find both the matriarchate and patriarchate family; and we may observe the greatest difference in the conduct of the parents in their care of offspring.