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Amazons in America : Matriarchs, Utopians, and Wonder Women in U.S. Popular Culture /
Amazons in America uncovers the rich tradition of matriarchal popular culture in the United States. Beginning with anthropological studies from the late nineteenth century, which theorized a universal prehistoric past in which women ruled, cultural historian Keira V. Williams explores how representa...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baton Rouge :
Louisiana State University Press,
[2019]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: the multiple meanings of matriarchies in American history
- Gynecocracy in the gilded age: the intellectual and historical foundations of American matriarchalism
- Mother-rule in the modern world: Victorian feminist matriarchalism
- White queens and African amazons: imperial matriarchalism at the Chicago World's Fair
- Witches, wizards, and women of cast iron: American matriarchalism goes mainstream
- Like coming home to mother: progressive era matriarchalism
- The amazing amazon: Wonder Woman's matriarchalist superheroics
- Vipers and momarchies: mid-century antimatriarchalism
- Goddesses, earth mothers, and female men: the matriarchies of the women's liberation movement
- Mammies, matriarchs, and welfare queens: racist matriarchalism
- Epilogue: Madeas and the manosphere: American matriarchalism in the early twenty-first century.