Cynthia Eller: 1 book

Book cover of Gentlemen and Amazons

Gentlemen and Amazons

The Myth of Matriarchal Prehistory, 1861–1900

by Cynthia Eller
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2011

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...
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