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

by Cynthia Eller

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520266765
• ISBN13: 9780520266766
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 290 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"