TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bachofen,Johann Jakob
AU  - Partenheimer,David
TI  - An English translation of Bachofen's Mutterrecht (Mother right) (1861): a study of the religious and juridical aspects of gynecocracy in the ancient world 
SN  - 9780773411401
AV  - HQ505 
U1  - 306.859 22
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Lewiston
PB  - Edwin Mellen Press
KW  - Matriarchy
KW  - History
KW  - To 1500
KW  - FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS
KW  - Alternative Family
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Reference
KW  - fast
N1  - Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Translator's Introduction; Preface and Introduction; Lycia; Crete; Athens; Lemnos; Egypt; India and Central Asia; Orchomenus and the Minyans; Elis; Epizephyrian Locrians; Lesbos; Mantinea; Pythagoreanism and Subsequent Doctrines; Cantabri; Lithographs; Works Cited; References; Index
N2  - Mutterrecht (Mother Right) by Johann Jakob Bachofen was the seminal document of the 19th century concerning the role of women in ancient societies. Bachofen documented that motherhood is the source of human society, religion, morality, and decency in societies including Lycia, Crete, Greece, Egypt, India, Central Asia, Northern Africa, and Spain. He concluded the work by connecting ancient mother right with Christianity. Bachofen's theory of cultural evolution incited a virtual 'mother-mania' among ethnologists, social philosophers, and even writers, among them Lewis Henry Morgan, Friedrich En
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