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...