According to the myth of matriarchal prehistory, men and women lived together peacefully before recorded history. Society was centered around women, with their

Gentlemen and Amazons traces the nineteenth-century genesis and development of an important contemporary myth about human origins: that of a matriarchal prehist

In this smart, intimate, and conversational book, Cynthia Eller delves into the twin thickets of gender theory and everyday experience to ask how we decide who

A fascinating introduction to one of the fastest-growing religious movements in the United States today. Through interviews, participant-observation, and analys

With this remarkable study, historian Keira V. Williams shows how fictional matriarchies—produced for specific audiences in successive eras and across multipl