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Autore |
Eller Cynthia |
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Titolo |
Gentlemen and Amazons : The Myth of Matriarchal Prehistory, 1861-1900 / / Cynthia Eller |
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Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2011] |
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©2011 |
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ISBN |
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1-283-29181-9 |
9786613291813 |
0-520-94855-6 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (291 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Women, Prehistoric |
Religion, Prehistoric |
Matriarchy |
Matrilineal kinship |
Patriarchy |
Feminist theory |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- 1. The Travels and Travails of Matriarchal Myth -- 2. Amazons Everywhere: Matriarchal Myth before Bachofen -- 3. On the Launching Pad: J. J. Bachofen and 'Das Mutterrech' -- 4. The Matriarchal Explosion: Anthropology Finds Mother Right (and Itself) -- 5. Making Matriarchal Myth Work: Communists and Feminists Discover the Mother Age -- 6. Mother Right on the Continent -- 7. Struggling to Stay Alive: Anthropology and Matriarchal Myth -- 8. Matriarchal Myth in the Late Nineteenth Century: Why Then? Why Not Before? -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Gentlemen and Amazons traces the nineteenth-century genesis and development of an important contemporary myth about human origins: that of an original prehistoric matriarchy. Cynthia Eller explores the |
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