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 Key figures: Carol M. Anderson, Judith Myers Avis, Laura Brown, Betty Carter, Phyllis Chesler, Barbara Ehrenreich, Carolyn Enns, Carol Gilligan, Rachel T. Hare-Mustin, bell hooks, Deborah Anna Luepnitz, Dell Martin, Monica McGoldrick, Jean Baker Miller, Peggy Papp, Pam Remer, Patricia Robertson, Olga Silverstein, Lenore Walker, Froma Walsh, and Judith Worell, to name a very fewGrowing out of the feminist revolution of the 1960s and 1970s, feminist family therapists challenged patriarchy and the acceptance of White, male, heterosexual privilege inherent in the field of family therapy. They then went on to place gender role and power assessments, egalitarian relationships based on informed consent, consciousness-raising, assertiveness training, gender issues, and cultural diversity at the center of family counseling. Feminist family therapists understand patriarchy to be the dominant culture in all societies, and they have critiqued family systems theory for its lack of focus on gender and multicultural issues.