03226nam 22006855 450 991078172830332120230725051400.01-283-29181-997866132918130-520-94855-610.1525/9780520948556(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 theoryWomen, PrehistoricReligion, PrehistoricMatriarchyMatrilineal kinshipPatriarchyFeminist theory306.85/9306.859Eller Cynthiaauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut1553555DE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK9910781728303321Gentlemen and Amazons3814202UNINA