Gentlemen and Amazons - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Gentlemen and Amazons write by Cynthia Eller. This book was released on 2011-02-06. Gentlemen and Amazons available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “Eller is an excellent historian. She expertly lays out the development of the little known myth of matriarchal prehistory in a way that is both highly knowledgeable and readable. This is essential reading for anyone interested in the history of feminist thought and anthropology.” —Rosemary Radford Ruether, author of Goddesses and the Divine Feminine “Without a doubt, this is the best introduction into the mythological jungle of modern scholarship on matriarchy. Cynthia Eller’s book is not only perfectly researched, it is also intelligent and pleasantly written.” —Philippe Borgeaud, author of Mother of the Gods: From Cybele to the Virgin Mary
Gentlemen and Amazons
Gentlemen and Amazons - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Gentlemen and Amazons write by Cynthia Eller. This book was released on 2011-03-08. Gentlemen and Amazons available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Gentlemen and Amazons traces the nineteenth-century genesis and development of an important contemporary myth about human origins: that of an original prehistoric matriarchy. Cynthia Eller explores the intellectual history of the myth, which arose from male scholars who mostly wanted to vindicate the patriarchal family model as a higher stage of human development. Eller tells the stories these men told, analyzes the gendered assumptions they made, and provides the necessary context for understanding how feminists of the 1970s and 1980s embraced as historical "fact" a discredited nineteenth-century idea.
Amazon Men
Amazon Men - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Amazon Men write by Adam Courtenay. This book was released on 2015-06-24. Amazon Men available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “Captivating . . . An examination of complex and contradictory human responses to the development of the Amazon and to its preservation” (The Australian). Amazon Men is about conquistadors and botanists, colonizers and human rights activists, slave traders and philanthropists—that is, people who have variously tried to conquer, rework, map, enslave, and save this region and its river system, each according to the needs and zeitgeist of their time in history. The environmental battles of today are part of a long-running story that’s been going on since Europeans first discovered this impenetrable ocean of green. For centuries there’s been a war of attrition between the greatest ecosystem and the greatest predator. Up until now, the predator has failed. Amazon Men is about those who’ve tried to conquer and exploit the Amazon—and those who’ve tried to understand and savor it. Conquistadors Francisco de Orellana and Lope de Aguirre play their parts as representatives of the Age of Discovery. Charles Marie de La Condamine is a perfect foil for the Age of Enlightenment. Alexander von Humboldt appears as a scientist of the Romantic age, seeking unity in the midst of chaos. Walter Hardenburg represents the machine age, defying the industrial imperatives of his time to oppose unfettered colonial capitalism. Sydney Possuelo, the greatest living Amazonian explorer, represents the ongoing conflict between modern expansion and environmental causes. What do their experiences tell us about our attitude to the unexplored and unknown? The stories of Amazon Men recount deeds of bravery and acts of brilliance, but also forgotten holocausts where guns, germs, and steel have all played their roles.
The Maternalists
The Maternalists - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Maternalists write by Shaul Bar-Haim. This book was released on 2021-08-06. The Maternalists available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "This book discusses the role of motherhood in psychoanalysis, and how this contributed to the British welfare state in the first half of the twentieth century"--
Fifteen Thousand Miles on the Amazon and Its Tributaries
Fifteen Thousand Miles on the Amazon and Its Tributaries - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fifteen Thousand Miles on the Amazon and Its Tributaries write by Charles Barrington Brown. This book was released on 1878. Fifteen Thousand Miles on the Amazon and Its Tributaries available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
