Myth, Matriarchy and Modernity : Johann Jakob Bachofen in German Culture. 1860-1945.
This study explores the prevalence in German culture of myths about ancient matriarchal societies, tracing their presence in left and right wing politics, feminist and antifeminist writing, sociology, psychoanalysis and literary production. The work of the Swiss theorist of matriarchy, Johann Jakob...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin :
Walter de Gruyter,
2010.
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Colección: | Interdisciplinary German cultural studies.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface. An Uncomfortable Influence
- Chapter 1. Bachofen in the Nineteenth Century: Myth, Gender, Modernity
- Chapter 2. The Nature of Authority and the Authority of Nature: Anthropology, Marxism and Germanic Mysticism
- Chapter 3. Mother Right and the Women's Movement
- Chapter 4. Matriarchy and the Literature of the Fin-de-siècle
- Chapter 5. 'Psychoanalyste avant la lettre?' Bachofen, Mythic Motherhood, and Psychoanalysis
- Chapter 6. Prophets of Matriarchal Revolution: Otto Gross and Expressionism
- Chapter 7. 'The Struggle for Johann Jakob Bachofen' Philology and Politics in the 1920s
- Chapter 8. Myth, Symbol, Modernity: Bachofen in Literary Works of the 1920s
- Chapter 9. Feminine Myth and Masculine Politics: National Socialism and Matriarchy
- Chapter 10. Antifascist Bodies and Dialectical Mythologies: Bachofen in the anti-Nazi Struggle
- Backmatter.