Societies in Balance
Societies in Balance

Re-thinking “Matriarchy” in Modern Matriarchal Studies

Author(s): Heide Goettner-Abendroth
Subject(s): Gender Studies, Sociology
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: non-patriarchal social patterns; matriarchy; women; future generations
Summary/Abstract: The surge of popular and scholarly interest in non-patriarchal social patterns has inspired formation of various new terms for them. Why then insist on the sometimes problematic designation, “matriarchy”? Reclaiming this term means to reclaim knowledge of societies that have been socially, economically, politically and culturally created by women. In the course of these cultures’ long histories, women and men have participated equally to sustain them and pass them on to future generations.

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