Gentlemen and Amazons : the Myth of Matriarchal Prehistory, 1861-1900.
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 th...
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Language: | English |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
2011.
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