By Cynthia Eller

Gentlemen and Amazons lines the nineteenth-century genesis and improvement of a tremendous modern fable approximately human origins: that of an unique prehistoric matriarchy. Cynthia Eller explores the highbrow background of the parable, which arose from male students who normally desired to vindicate the patriarchal relatives version as a better level of human improvement. Eller tells the tales those males advised, analyzes the gendered assumptions they made, and offers the required context for knowing how feminists of the Seventies and Nineteen Eighties embraced as ancient "fact" a discredited nineteenth-century idea.

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