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Author Eller, Cynthia, 1958-

Title Gentlemen and Amazons : the myth of matriarchal prehistory, 1861-1900 / Cynthia Eller.

Publication Info. Berkeley : University of California Press, [2011]
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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  306.859 E45G    Check Shelf
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.
Religion, Prehistoric.
Matriarchy.
Matrilineal kinship.
Patriarchy.
Feminist theory.
ISBN 9780520248595 cloth alkaline paper
0520248597 cloth alkaline paper
9780520266766 paperback alkaline paper
0520266765 paperback alkaline paper
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