Gentlemen and Amazons
Download or Read eBook Gentlemen and Amazons PDF 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.
Author | : Cynthia Eller |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 291 |
Release | : 2011-03-08 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780520948556 |
ISBN-13 | : 0520948556 |
Rating | : 4/5 (56 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Gentlemen and Amazons by : Cynthia Eller
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.