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Gentlemen and Amazons : The Myth of Matriarchal Prehistory, 1861-1900 / / Cynthia Eller



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Autore: Eller Cynthia Visualizza persona
Titolo: Gentlemen and Amazons : The Myth of Matriarchal Prehistory, 1861-1900 / / Cynthia Eller Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2011]
©2011
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (291 p.)
Disciplina: 306.85/9
306.859
Soggetto topico: Women, Prehistoric
Religion, Prehistoric
Matriarchy
Matrilineal kinship
Patriarchy
Feminist theory
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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
Sommario/riassunto: 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 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.
Titolo autorizzato: Gentlemen and Amazons  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-283-29181-9
9786613291813
0-520-94855-6
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910781728303321
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