An English Translation of Bachofen's Mutterrecht (Mother Right) (1861) : A Study of the Religious and Juridical Aspects of Gynecocracy in the Ancient World: Volume One Lycia Crete and Athens by Bachofen Johann Jakob
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An English Translation of Bachofen’s Mutterrecht (Mother Right) (1861) : A Study of the Religious and Juridical Aspects of Gynecocracy in the Ancient World: Volume One Lycia, Crete, and Athens

Author: Bachofen, Johann Jakob
SKU: PMRT.GEN.1865.03914

$157.25

Publisher: The Edwin Mellen Press
Number of Pages: 116
ISBN-13: 9780773451865
Publication Date: 2007
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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. Bachofens theory of cultural evolution incited a virtual mother-mania among ethnologists, social philosophers, and even writers, among them Lewis Henry Morgan, Friedrich Engels, Joseph Campbell, Robert Graves, Thomas Mann, and Rainer Maria Rilke.

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