Gentlemen and Amazons: The Myth of Matriarchal Prehistory, 1861-1900
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. The Travels and Travails of Matriarchal Myth
Chapter 2. Amazons Everywhere: Matriarchal Myth before Bachofen
Chapter 3. On the Launching Pad: J. J. Bachofen and Das Mutterrecht
Chapter 4. The Matriarchal Explosion: Anthropology Finds Mother Right (and Itself)
Chapter 5. Making Matriarchal Myth Work: Communists and Feminists Discover the Mother Age
Chapter 6. Mother Right on the Continent
Chapter 7. Struggling to Stay Alive: Anthropology and Matriarchal Myth
Chapter 8. Matriarchal Myth in the Late Nineteenth Century: Why Then? Why Not Before?
Notes
Bibliography
Index
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. The Travels and Travails of Matriarchal Myth
Chapter 2. Amazons Everywhere: Matriarchal Myth before Bachofen
Chapter 3. On the Launching Pad: J. J. Bachofen and Das Mutterrecht
Chapter 4. The Matriarchal Explosion: Anthropology Finds Mother Right (and Itself)
Chapter 5. Making Matriarchal Myth Work: Communists and Feminists Discover the Mother Age
Chapter 6. Mother Right on the Continent
Chapter 7. Struggling to Stay Alive: Anthropology and Matriarchal Myth
Chapter 8. Matriarchal Myth in the Late Nineteenth Century: Why Then? Why Not Before?
Notes
Bibliography
Index
