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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Online Access:Electronic book from EBSCO
Electronic book from EBSCO
Main Author: Eller, Cynthia.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published:Berkeley : University of California Press, 2011.
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