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

By Cynthia Eller

Book information

Publisher
University of California Press
Year
2011
ISBN
0520266765, 9780520266766
Language
english
Format
MOBI
Filesize
1 MB (1316707 bytes)
Pages
290\0
Time added
2014-10-23 12:46:23

Description

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 1970s and 1980s embraced as historical “fact” a discredited nineteenth-century idea.

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