French family research yielded only impressions of undisturbed patriarchy

Evidence

Even less productive was the research among young people which was carried out in France, where 1651 questionnaires had been returned. Even the preliminary report prepared for the Studies on Authority and the Family gave only a general impression of the apparently undisturbed patriarchal set-up of the family in France, and of a role distribution according to which the father was a figure of respect and the mother a confidante. The questionnaires sent out from the London branch from September 1934 onwards, to organizations which had them filled in by their members, were apparently never analysed. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 567

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: French legal reforms eroded the patriarchal authority and hierarchy underpinning African society; Colonial ethnographers claimed a hidden matriarchy lay beneath visible Algerian patriarchy — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 132

Broader Connections

• Colonial ethnographers claimed a hidden matriarchy lay beneath visible Algerian patriarchy #expands (0.85) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 132
• French legal reforms eroded the patriarchal authority and hierarchy underpinning African society #contradicts (0.80)