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Matriarchal societies of the past and the rise of patriarchy : West Asia and Europe by Heide Goettner-Abendroth is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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This book is about re-writing the history of cultures from a non-patriarchal perspective, bringing the forgotten matriarchal epoch to light again. It is based on Heide Goettner-Abendroth’s pioneering anthropological research on still extant matriarchal societies worldwide, which provided her with a new definition of "matriarchy" as true gender-egalitarian societies. According to modern Matriarchal Studies, matriarchies have never needed patriarchy’s hierarchical structures of domination, as they are socially egalitarian, economically balanced, and politically based on consensus decisions. This is the author’s background for re-examining the history of cultures. She criticizes the patriarchal prejudices which abound in archaeological interpretations, and their blindness to the great variety of human social forms. By going deeper into this material she is able to develop a completely different picture of the earliest cultural epochs, which were decisively formed by women, motherhood and maternal values. Additionally, she gives a logical and detailed explanation for the rise of patriarchy, which is based on archaeological finds and not on speculation and, therefore, has a high degree

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Author

Heide Goettner-Abendroth

Publisher

Peter Lang Publishing Inc. New York Peter Lang Verlag

Published

2022

Language

EN

ISBN

9781433191206

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Anthropology, History, Social_sciences