03260nam 22006975 450 991045804660332120211005153340.01-283-29181-997866132918130-520-94855-610.1525/9780520948556(CKB)2550000000050042(EBL)784535(OCoLC)756484686(SSID)ssj0000537051(PQKBManifestationID)11351356(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000537051(PQKBWorkID)10550848(PQKB)11776675(StDuBDS)EDZ0000084773(DE-B1597)519101(DE-B1597)9780520948556(MiAaPQ)EBC784535(EXLCZ)99255000000005004220200424h20112011 fg engur|||||||||||txtccrGentlemen and Amazons The Myth of Matriarchal Prehistory, 1861-1900 /Cynthia EllerBerkeley, CA :University of California Press,[2011]©20111 online resource (291 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-520-24859-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 --IndexGentlemen 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 intellectual history of the myth, which arose from male scholars who mostly wanted to vindicate the patriarchal family model as a higher stage of human development. Eller tells the stories these men told, analyzes the gendered assumptions they made, and provides the necessary context for understanding how feminists of the 1970's and 1980's embraced as historical "fact" a discredited nineteenth-century idea.Women, PrehistoricReligion, PrehistoricMatriarchyMatrilineal kinshipPatriarchyFeminist theoryElectronic books.Women, PrehistoricReligion, PrehistoricMatriarchyMatrilineal kinshipPatriarchyFeminist theory306.85/9306.859Eller Cynthiaauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut1053326DE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK9910458046603321Gentlemen and Amazons2485177UNINA