Gentlemen and Amazons(English, Hardcover, Eller Cynthia)

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Gentlemen and Amazons(English, Hardcover, Eller Cynthia) is written by Eller Cynthia and published by University of California Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0520248597 (ISBN 10) and 9780520248595 (ISBN 13).

"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.