On 29/10/2008 k wrote:
>On 29/10/2008 anthonyk wrote:
>
>>like a lot of feminist myth the "matriarchy" is a fantasy, there isn't
>>a single example of it in the history of humanity.
>
>sheesh, you need a history lesson, boy.
do I?
"The view of matriarchy as constituting a stage of cultural development is now generally discredited. Furthermore, the consensus among modern anthropologists and sociologists is that a strictly matriarchal society never existed." ('Matriarchy', Encyclopędia Britannica, 2007.)
from wikipedia-
Most modern anthropologists and sociologists assert that there are no known examples of human matriarchies from any point in history,[2][3][4][5][6][7] and Encyclopedia Britannica describes their views as "consensus", listing matriarchy as a hypothetical social system
# Steven Goldberg, The Inevitability of Patriarchy, (William Morrow & Company, 1973).
# ^ Joan Bamberger,'The Myth of Matriarchy: Why Men Rule in Primitive Society', in M Rosaldo and L Lamphere, Women, Culture, and Society, (Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1974), pp. 263-280.
# ^ Robert Brown, Human Universals, (Philadelphia: Temple University Press), 1991.
# ^ Steven Goldberg, Why Men Rule, (Chicago, Illinois: Open Court Publishing Company, 1993).
# ^ Cynthia Eller, The Myth of Matriarchal Prehistory: Why an Invented Past Won't Give Women a Future, (Boston: Beacon Press, 2001).
# ^ Jonathan Marks, 'Essay 8: Primate Behavior', in The Un-Textbook of Biological Anthropology, (Unpublished, 2007), p. 11.
maybe YOU need a history lesson |