What do you think Barker's views are on patriarchs and patriarchy?

I think Barker obviously is not fond of the idea that men feel they must control everything to pose their "rightful" authority on the rest of the world's population. She seems to be a kind of revolutionist, defying authority that has been given to them by "divine" right because of their sex.
In Regeneration Barker blatantly defies this patriarchy in Edwardian England by showing broken men (soldiers returning from war e.g. Anderson, Prior etc...) and men sometimes dominated by women strength (as Prior is shoved away violently by Sarah). We also find that all patriarchs have something in common, an important status whether it be middle class or upper class therefore making working class people like Prior to oppose the patriarchy himself (even though he is himself a man). I did not like this as it Showed Barker's desperate side to opposing today's patriarchal world and it also stereotypes that the working class actually care too much about their own background and fear the upper classes judgments.

I believe she has failed in making her views towards patriarchy clear enough for a simple reader to understand her hidden points behind her character. However it is blatant that she tries to represent most of these patriarchal figures in a dark light. Yealland for example has a patriarchal shadow over the soldiers but tortures them with electricity as his "cure" for war-neurosis. The government itself is shown as a being an obscure organisation set out to destroy the soldiers' individuality by picking some of Sassoon's poems very carefully like "The General" ridding of himself of soldiers who may be spreading low morale.