The term "matriarchate" encouraged this fallacy and has gone out of use.    From Wordnik.com.  [Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals] Reference

"The matriarchate is a system of relationship according to which the child is related only to his mother and to the persons connected with him through the female line, while he is looked upon as not related to his father and the persons connected with him through the male line.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day] Reference

As in Europe, the change from matriarchate to patriarchate came about only gradually and with much strife.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-02-01] Reference

For the matriarchate of Estcarp did have powers beyond any human explanation, and they used them ruthlessly when necessary.    From Wordnik.com.  [Witch World]

Traces of the matriarchate survived to the present among some of the Arabs of North Africa, ancient home of "Libyan Amazons.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-02-01] Reference

Raith Cremthainn, but the place where the parents had first met -- which would be an instance of the husband dwelling with the wife's people, as is frequent under the matriarchate.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Latin & Irish Lives of Ciaran Translations Of Christian Literature. Series V. Lives Of The Celtic Saints] Reference

Following out these views to their legitimate conclusions, and both experience and observation verify them, it is obvious that there is no evidence of the matriarchate system in Manóbo-land.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir] Reference

Nor does this all seem to be solely a survival of the historic matriarchate through which all nations pass,—it appears to be more than this,—as if the great black race in passing up the steps of human culture gave the world, not only the Iron Age, the cultivation of the soil, and the domestication of animals, but also, in peculiar emphasis, the mother-idea.    From Wordnik.com.  [DARKWATER] Reference

All these things do not, however, point to anything like the existence of a matriarchate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1] Reference

Theseus over the Amazons, and the rise of a new civic order on the ruins of a matriarchate?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shakespeare Study Programs; The Comedies] Reference

On such an established fact rests the assumption of a matriarchate, or period of Mutterrecht.    From Wordnik.com.  [Taboo and Genetics A Study of the Biological, Sociological and Psychological Foundation of the Family] Reference

The doctrines of the matriarchate are likewise degenerate beliefs, and, if held by any civilized being of to-day, are evidences of psychic atavism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Religion and Lust or, The Psychical Correlation of Religious Emotion and Sexual Desire] Reference

The woman thus had an advantage over the man in being able to transmit her rank to her children, a survival of the matriarchate custom once ruling the world.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mystic Isles of the South Seas.] Reference

Among the coarsely, stupidly, viciously masculine countries of the world the American Republic is the single and conspicuous matriarchate, ruled by its good women.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dust Flower] Reference

Polyandry, originating from any cause whatever, will always end in the establishment of a matriarchate, in which the women are either directly or indirectly at the head of the government.    From Wordnik.com.  [Religion and Lust or, The Psychical Correlation of Religious Emotion and Sexual Desire] Reference

The reversion to the prehistoric matriarchate can hardly be complete in these days, but there are many significant straws that indicate the rising of a new wind blown by ancient instincts.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Living Present] Reference

In these lists the mothers are always prominently mentioned, the reason for this most likely being the fact that Edomites attached importance to the line of maternal descent, and yet this fact could hardly point to a matriarchate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1] Reference

Besides, it may be well to append a list of the instances where the father or the mother give the names to their children and so to show the futility of the contention that the matriarchate prevailed of old according to the Scriptures.    From Wordnik.com.  [Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1] Reference

Suffrage in its entirety, that suffrage which will give them a share in the government, is not desired by them; they do not belong to the class of viragints, unsexed individuals, whose main object is the establishment of a matriarchate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Religion and Lust or, The Psychical Correlation of Religious Emotion and Sexual Desire] Reference

During the past fifty years, these people have made rapid strides toward civilization, monandry and monogamy taking the places of polyandry and polygamy, and fifty or a hundred years hence, this matriarchate will, in all probability, entirely disappear.    From Wordnik.com.  [Religion and Lust or, The Psychical Correlation of Religious Emotion and Sexual Desire] Reference

From the stage when property ceased to be chiefly the creation of feminine agricultural toil (the so-called primitive matriarchate) to our present stage, women have had to depend upon a man's willingness to keep them, in order to realise the organic purpose of their being.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Englishman Looks at the World] Reference

It may be added that the early predominance of woman in the work of civilisation is altogether independent of that conception of a primitive matriarchate, or government of women, which was set forth some fifty years ago by Bachofen, and has since caused so much controversy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Essays in War-Time Further Studies in the Task of Social Hygiene] Reference

The fact that in this single case the marriage of near relatives is not only permitted but considered almost as an obligation, while in all other instances it is strictly prohibited, probably points to the conclusion that the custom is a survival of the matriarchate, when a brother's property would pass to his sister's son.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume IV of IV Kumhar-Yemkala] Reference

But most phenomena belonging to our science have not yet been investigated, so it is no wonder that different writers (sometimes even the same writer on different pages) give different names to the same phenomenon, whereas, on the other hand, sometimes the same term (e.g., matriarchate) is applied to widely different phenomena.    From Wordnik.com.  [Introduction to the Science of Sociology] Reference

Semitic analogy and Biblical evidences seem to indicate that among the early Hebrews, as among other early Semitic nations, man lived under a matriarchate system, i.e. kinship was constituted by uterine ties, and descent was reckoned through female lines; the father's relation to his children being, if not ignored, certainly of little or no importance.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne] Reference

Nor does this all seem to be solely a survival of the historic matriarchate through which all nations pass, -- it appears to be more than this, -- as if the great black race in passing up the steps of human culture gave the world, not only the Iron Age, the cultivation of the soil, and the domestication of animals, but also, in peculiar emphasis, the mother-idea.    From Wordnik.com.  [Darkwater Voices from Within the Veil] Reference

Maignenn, St., manuscripts of Lives, matriarchate, merchants of wine, metres.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Latin & Irish Lives of Ciaran Translations Of Christian Literature. Series V. Lives Of The Celtic Saints] Reference

Hence, if I can prove that woman, by leading a life in which her present environments are changed, produces physical degeneration, it will naturally follow that psychical degeneration will also accrue; and, since one of the invariable results of degeneration, both physical and psychical, is atavism, the phenomenon of a social revolution in which the present form of government will be overthrown and a matriarchate established in its stead, will be not a possibility of the future, but a probability.    From Wordnik.com.  [Religion and Lust or, The Psychical Correlation of Religious Emotion and Sexual Desire] Reference