Gentlemen and Amazons

Gentlemen and Amazons
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Publisher : Univ of California Press
Total Pages : 291
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ISBN-10 : 9780520948556
ISBN-13 : 0520948556
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Book Synopsis Gentlemen and Amazons by : Cynthia Eller

Download or read book Gentlemen and Amazons written by Cynthia Eller and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2011-03-08 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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