| Description |
1 online resource (474 pages) |
| Series |
Interdisciplinary German cultural studies, 1861-8030 |
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Interdisciplinary German cultural studies.
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| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
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 Bachofen (1815-1887), has been highly influential, and this book shows how the interpretation of his legacy became a battleground for conflicts about modernity, myth, race and nation, sex and gender, and ultimately the struggle between National Socialism and its opponents |
| Analysis |
Johann Jakob Bachofen, Matriarchy, Modernity |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Bachofen, Johann Jakob, 1815-1887 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Bachofen, Johann Jakob, 1815-1887.
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| SUBJECT |
Bachofen, Johann Jakob, 1815-1887 fast |
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Matriarchy -- Mythology.
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Matriarch -- Religious aspects
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Mythology, Germanic.
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Ethnology -- Germany.
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HISTORY / Europe / Germany.
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Ethnology
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Matriarchy -- Mythology
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Mythology, Germanic
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Germany
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9783110227093 |
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3110227096 |
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3110227088 |
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9783110227086 |
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