It deals with the "woman who ensures lineage" and the strategy of the patriarchal system through philosophers, lawmakers, and ancient authors who embody this ideology to control the reproductive powers of women through prohibitions and male/female hierarchies.

It focuses on the maternal dimension of the goddesses of the Greek pantheon, which can be seen both in their procreative power and in the protection they provide to the institutions that frame maternal functioning, as well as on the strategy of the patriarchal system through the goddesses to establish the patriarchal social order.

Tragic poets, bearers of patriarchal ideology and integrated into the cultural mechanisms of the production of roles and behaviors, represent the mother-heroines (Medea, Clytemnestra, Phaedra) who voice a "male" discourse, claim an equal place to that of men in the public sphere, and invert gender roles by retaliating against their husbands, as bearers of evil and dangerous to patriarchal society; they also raise the question of the status of mother-women (Hecuba, Alcestis), archetypes of the patriarchal social order.