Gentlemen and Amazons
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civilization
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feminism
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gender studies
history
human development
human origins
indigenous culture
indigenous people
matriarchy
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patriarchal family
patriarchy
power structures
prehistoric
social science
womankind
women in early history
womens history
womens studies
Product details
- ISBN 9780520266766
- Weight: 363g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 08 Mar 2011
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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"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.
Cynthia Eller is Professor of Women's Studies and Religious Studies at Montclair State University. She is the author of The Myth of Matriarchal Prehistory: Why an Invented Past Will Not Give Women a Future; Am I a Woman? A Skeptic's Guide to Gender; and Living in the Lap of the Goddess: The Feminist Spirituality Movement in America.
