1The Mosuo people of southwestern China are frequently cited as an example of a matriarchal society, though anthropologists debate the precise terminology.
2Is it historically accurate to describe Minoan Crete as a matriarchal civilisation, or does the archaeological evidence suggest a more nuanced power structure?
3Bachofen's nineteenth-century theory of an ancient matriarchal stage of human development has been largely discredited by modern scholarship.
4Examine the matriarchal lineage systems of certain Native American tribes before drawing broad conclusions about gender and governance.
5There is a persistent utopian impulse in feminist literature to imagine a matriarchal order free from the violence associated with patriarchal rule.