Description |
xiv, 275 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-264) and index. |
Contents |
The travels and travails of matriarchal myth -- Amazons everywhere: matriarchal myth before Bachofen -- On the launching pad: J.J. Bachofen and Das Mutterrecht -- The matriarchal explosion: anthropology finds mother right (and itself) -- Making matriarchal myth work: communists and feminists discover the mother age -- Mother right on the continent -- Struggling to stay alive: anthropology and matriarchal myth -- Matriarchal myth in the late nineteenth century: why then? Why not before? |
Subject |
Women, Prehistoric.
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Religion, Prehistoric.
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Matriarchy.
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Matrilineal kinship.
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Patriarchy.
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Feminist theory.
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ISBN |
9780520248595 cloth alkaline paper |
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0520248597 cloth alkaline paper |
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9780520266766 paperback alkaline paper |
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0520266765 paperback alkaline paper |
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