10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GYNAECOCRACY»
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gynaecocracy in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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1
The Feminism of Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Sexualities, ...
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, “Sex and Race Progress” (1929) Gynaecocracy
Androcracy Since analysis of sexual relations animated Gilman's feminism, ac-
counting for their origins was a critical axis of her feminist theory. Key portions of
her ...
2
Tudor Protestant Political Thought 1547-1603
Knox was encouraged in his conviction that gynaecocracy was contra naturam by
Calvin. In 1559, trying to disassociate himself from Knox's radical politics, Calvin
recounted to William Cecil how Knox asked him his opinion concerning ...
3
Spoken Like a Woman: Speech and Gender in Athenian Drama
Those scholars who have embraced the idea of political reform and even
gynaecocracy as the central message of the play accordingly view Praxagora's
use of rhetoric as ameliorative and beneficial to the city.117 As Said and Foley
have both ...
4
Ottavo contributo alla storia degli studi classici e del ...
103 Jacoby), Bachofen described this famous and privileged example of
gynaecocracy. The children follow the status of the mother, daughters inherit her
property. The mother, not the father, rules the family; and there is a queen ruling
over the ...
5
Before Sexuality: The Construction of Erotic Experience in ...
"On Herakles under the yoke: Ovid, Heroides 9.5-6, 11-12 and ff.; Herakles under
a gynaecocracy: Cook (1906), 365-78 (gynaecocracy of Hera); Tumpel (1902),
cols. 870-87 (on Omphale/Hera), ^Loraux (1981 c), 37-67. 30 Mania/ menos: this
...
David M. Halperin, John J. Winkler, Froma I. Zeitlin, 1990
6
With Her in Ourland: Sequel to Herland
Lester Ward's Reform Darwinism and "Gynaecocracy" Reform Darwinism was
first articulated with force by Henry George (1879) in Progress and Poverty.
George attacked the support of economic exploitation implicit in conservative
social ...
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Mary Jo Deegan, Michael R. Hill, 1997
7
The Cambridge Companion to Greek Mythology
What is striking about Lysistrata is that, in this myth of gynaecocracy (the rule of
women) Aristophanes reverses the negative and positive signs normally attached
to women and men. In other stories of women taking control, they often do so in ...
8
Law in Religious Communities in the Roman Period: The Debate ...
[T]he author interprets mythological references to outstanding women as relics of
a one-time gynaecocracy. . .. [S]ecular gynaecocracy merely reflects the primary
phenomenon, viz., the cult of a female deity. . . . . Gynaecocracy . . . was not the ...
Peter Richardson, Stephen Westerholm, 1991
... not only has Bachofen's myth of gynaecocracy as a world-wide factor in the
history of mankind sunk below the horizon, but the very existence of a matriarchal
circle, as in the systems constructed by the "school of culture-history", has been ...
10
Discovering Reality,: Feminist Perspectives on Epistemology, ...
To believe in this early stage of "gynaecocracy" is "the logical and inevitable
conclusion that must follow the admission of the animal origin of man."21 The
introduction of the notion of "gynaecocracy," Ward suggests, ends the
androcentric ...
Sandra Harding, Merrill B. Hintikka †, 2003
NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «GYNAECOCRACY»
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gynaecocracy is used in the context of the following news items.
Gynaecocracy Day in Serres, Northern Greece
gynaecocracy-serres The gynaecocracy custom was revived today in Serres, northern Greece, in the villages of Monoklisia and Nea Petra. «Greek Reporter, Jan 15»
