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This is a comprehensive ethnographic study about the Moso, a matrilineal group in Southwest China, whose unique traditions are bound to change accepted notions of marriage, kinship, the family, and gender relations.

Naxi (Chinese people) --- Matrilineal kinship --- Sex role --- Sexual behavior. --- Kinship. --- Social life and customs.

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Matriarchy in Bronze Age Crete: A Perspective from Archaeomythology and Modern Matriarchal Studies offers a very different perspective of Crete than is usually found in academic writing; making a compelling case for a matriarchal Bronze Age Crete. Bronze Age Crete evokes for many the image of an exceptionally sophisticated civilization: peaceful, artistic, and refined; a society in which women were highly visible and important, and the supreme deity was a Goddess. Yet, despite the fact that authorities acknowledge that the preeminent deity of Crete was a Female Divine, and that women played a major role in Cretan society, there is a gap in the scholarly literature, and a lively, ongoing debate regarding the centrality of women and the existence of matriarchy in Bronze Age Crete. The purpose of this work is to fill that gap, and to advance the debate over whether or not ancient Crete was a woman-centered and matriarchal society toward a more complex, detailed, and certain conclusion. To that end this publication utilises the field of modern matriarchal studies, with its carefully elucidated definition of the term matriarchy, and employs the methodology of archaeomythology - the use of historical, mythological, linguistic, and folkloric as well as archaeological sources. Given its scope, the volume will be of interest to scholars and students in the fields encompassed by archaeomythology, as well as the fields of women's studies, women's history, women's spirituality, and modern matriarchal studies.

Matriarchy --- Gynaecocracy --- Gynarchy --- Gynecocracy --- Gynocracy --- Matriarchal families --- Women --- Families --- Matrilineal kinship --- Crete (Greece) --- Greece --- History --- Social conditions --- Matriarchy.

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Papers presented at a one-day seminar.

Khasi (Indic people) --- Matrilineal kinship --- Social life and customs --- Congresses. --- Meghalaya (India) --- Social life and customs --- Congresses.

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Das Interesse an den zahlreichen steinzeitlichen Frauenstatuetten und die Auseinandersetzung mit der Darstellung des weiblichen Körpers und seiner Symbolik, die auf eine kultische Verehrung des Weiblichen hinweisen, führt zu den Konzepten der Geschlechterdifferenz und des Differenzfeminismus. Die Bezeichnung ""Göttin"" für diese Frauenfiguren führt zu den Fragen, welche Bedeutung eine weibliche Gottheit für Frauen haben könnte und wie sich eine monotheistische, patriarchale Religion auf das Selbstbild der Frau auswirkt. Der zweite Teil der Arbeit behandelt Frauengeschichte und Frauengeschichts

Matriarchy --- Goddesses --- Feminist anthropology. --- Feminist ethnography --- Feminist ethnology --- Anthropology --- Female gods --- Gods --- Gynaecocracy --- Gynarchy --- Gynecocracy --- Gynocracy --- Matriarchal families --- Women --- Families --- Matrilineal kinship --- History.

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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 1970's and 1980's embraced as historical "fact" a discredited nineteenth-century idea.

Feminist theory. --- Matriarchy. --- Matrilineal kinship. --- Patriarchy. --- Religion, Prehistoric. --- Women, Prehistoric. --- Women, Prehistoric --- Religion, Prehistoric --- Matriarchy --- Matrilineal kinship --- Patriarchy --- Feminist theory --- Anthropology --- Social Sciences --- Prehistoric Anthropology --- Feminism --- Feminist philosophy --- Feminist sociology --- Theory of feminism --- Androcracy --- Patriarchal families --- Fathers --- Families --- Male domination (Social structure) --- Patrilineal kinship --- Matrilineal descent --- Matriliny --- Unilineal descent (Kinship) --- Gynaecocracy --- Gynarchy --- Gynecocracy --- Gynocracy --- Matriarchal families --- Women --- Prehistoric religion --- Prehistoric women --- Prehistoric peoples --- Philosophy --- Femmes préhistoriques --- Religion préhistorique --- Matriarcat --- Filiation matrilinéaire --- Patriarcat (Sociologie) --- Théorie féministe