10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GYNAECOCRATIC»
Discover the use of
gynaecocratic in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
gynaecocratic and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Luce Irigaray and the Question of the Divine
For Irigaray, there is no sacrificial element to this event, because Christ blesses
and shares not what has been sacrificed but what is 'given' by the earth, a factor
which leads Irigaray to suggest a possible link with the cultures of gynaecocratic
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In the story of Diarmaid and Grainne. the woman uttered the magic incantation,
and, given the traces of a gynaecocratic system apparent in Celtic society, it is not
unreasonable to suppose that her action recalls some former age when women,
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3
Seeing Jaakob: The Poetics of Visuality in Thomas Mann's Die ...
Mann usually uses this word to describe the backward prehistoric condition of
humanity during the supposed gynaecocratic era. In contrast, he describes the
idealistic, progressive movement beyond fascism and romantic nationalism, first ...
4
The Stelliferous Fold: Toward a Virtual Law of Literature's ...
Benjamin claims that these agents are the representatives of an age that,
according to Bachofen, is anterior to the
gynaecocratic order, “a state of the world
that Bachofen has called the hetaeric stage. Kafl<a's novels take place in a
swamp ...
5
Unsung champions of women
The female animal or the human female in the gynaecocratic state would perish
before she would surrender her virtue. The passage from the gynaecocratic to the
androcratic state was characterized on the part of man by the loss of his normal ...
Those fragments of the eastern variant which contain stories regarding events
occurring near Central Arnhemland have also retained many of their original
gynaecocratic features. This is the reason why each separate Djanggawul tale is
in ...
7
Pure Sociology: A Treatise on the Origin and Spontaneous ...
There are very few in the gynaecocratic stage, nearly all have reached the
patriarchate, and the greater number are wholly out of the protosocial stage and
have undergone more or less social assimilation or race amalgamation. Alonga ...
8
Native American Literature: Towards a Spatialized Reading
... heterosexual relationships fail, theseeking out andrevalidation of the
gynaecocratic traditions of the foremothers, a privatization of experience(typified
in the feminist slogan 'the personal is political'). The trouble with'thepersonal is
political' is ...
9
King of the Celts: Arthurian Legends and Celtic Tradition
Arthurian Legends and Celtic Tradition Jean Markale. gynaecocratic tendencies
which survived intact in all the Celtic tales and the Round Table romances.
Cbeme. of. Sovereignty. One of the most important, and incidentally most
neglected, ...
10
Knowing the Past: Victorian Literature and Culture
Discussing ancient Egypt, China, and Babylonia she comments that The term
gynaecocratic has been applied to some of these communities, on the ground of
their sharing the widespread archaic conception of family relationships, in which
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