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1	The Great Cosmic Mother: Rediscovering the Religion of the Earth more books like this by Monica Sjoo, Barbara Mor This classic companion to "The World's Religions" articulates the remarkable unity that underlies the world's religious traditions see all copies from $5.95! new only from $11.00! \| first editions \| SVS
2	The Crone: Woman of Age, Wisdom, and Power more books like this by Barbara G Walker Chapter OneCreationAll over the modern world, a new social phenomenon is gradually taking shape. Women, the traditional pillars of Judeo-Christian religion, are turning against this faith. Many women prefer to gather in small grass-roots groups in each other's homes, where they discuss recent studies of prepatriarchal Goddess worship and engage in ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.30! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	Myth, religion and mother right : selected writings of J.J.Bachofen. more books like this by Johann Jacob Bachofen A pioneer of the idea of a transcendental mythical content present in all societies, Bachofen was deeply concerned with the inner life and how it is expressed in symbolic terms. see all copies from $3.34! new only from $30.00! \| first editions \| SVS
4	The Myth of Matriarchal Prehistory: Why an Invented Past Will Not Give Women a Future more books like this by Cynthia Eller In this lucide and fascinating volume, Eller traces the emergence of feminist matriarchal myth, explicates its functions, and examines the evidence for and against a matriarchal prehistory. Finally, she explains why this vision of peaceful, women-centered prehistory is something feminists should be wary of. see all copies from $6.08! new only from $16.28! \| first editions \| SVS
5	Women at the Center: Life in a Modern Matriarchy more books like this by Peggy Reeves Sanday Contrary to the declarations of some anthropologists, matriarchies do exist. Peggy Reeves Sanday first went to West Sumatra in 1981, intrigued by reports that the matrilineal Minangkabau -- one of the largest ethnic groups in Indonesia -- label their society a matriarchy. Numbering some four million in West Sumatra, the Minangkabau are known in ... see all copies from $5.00! new only from $13.23! \| first editions
6	The Last Hawk more books like this by Catherine Asaro When Kelric, a scion of the imperial family of Skolia, crash-lands his fighter on the off-limits planet of Coba, he figures it will be only a short time before he makes his way home. But he fails to account for the powerful matriarchy of Coba, the mistresses of the great estates who do not want the Empire to know about their recent cultural ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.17! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Dryland's End more books like this by Felice Picano The father of gay literature turns his hand to science fictionFive thousand years into the future, humankind itself is in jeopardy. It is a time of intergalactic peace and faster-than-light travel, when a group of intelligent cybernetic servants rebel against their creators using a cyber-virus that could lead to the mass extinction of humans and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $30.00! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Mothers & Amazons more books like this by Helen Diner, Berta Eckstein-Diener see all copies from $1.99! first editions
9	Love, Sexuality, and Matriarchy: About Gender more books like this by Erich Fromm, Rainer Funk (Editor) A collection of essays by Erich Fromm (1900-1980) on gender, relations between the sexes, and related issues that were not openly discussed from 1930 through 1970, when these essays were written. see all copies from $2.35! new only from $15.98! \| first editions
10	Mission to America more books like this by Walter Kirn Mason LaVerle is a young man on a mission--a mission to America. Raised by a religious sect in a remote Montana town, he leaves home to encounter the contemporary scene in all its bewildering, seductive diversity in this satirical yet moving tale of a stranger in a strange land. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.89! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
11	Saharasia: The 4000 Bce Origins of Child-Abuse, Sex-Repression, Warfare and Social Violence, in the Deserts of the Old World more books like this by James Demeo Ancient humans were peaceful - modern violence is avoidable. That's the basic message contained in "Saharasia," a controversial "marriage of heresies" over 10 years in the making. Perhaps the most ambitious and systematic scientific evaluations of human behavior and history ever undertaken, with hundreds of maps and illustrations, reviewing ... see all copies from $36.66! new only from $36.66! \| first editions
12	Behind the Sex of God: Toward a New Consciousness--Transcending Matriarchy and Patriarchy more books like this by Carol Ochs see all copies from $1.99! new only from $72.06! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Matriarchy: Freedom in Bondage(tr) more books like this by Malcolm McKesson "Matriarchy: Freedom in Bondage" is the life's work of 86 year old reclusive artist Malcolm McKesson, who has been secretly writing and illustrating this semi-autobiographical erotic novel for the past thirty years. "Matriarchy" follows the extraordinary transformation of a young man abducted into willing submission as a servant to a stern ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $19.62! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Into the Hearts of the Amazons: In Search of a Modern Matriarchy more books like this by Tom Demott "Into the Hearts of the Amazons" is part enthralling travel adventure through a little-known world and part popular ethnography, exploring how Zapotec women earned their legendary status in a remote corner of southern Mexico. To satisfy his curiosity about this culture, Tom DeMott journeyed to the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, where he discovered a ... see all copies from $9.95! new only from $20.95! \| first editions \| SVS
15	Lesbian Origins more books like this by Susan Cavin, Janet Yacht (Illustrator), Jean L Greggs (Illustrator) see all copies from $1.99! new only from $29.32! \| first editions
16	The Goba of the Zambezi: Sex Roles, Economics, and Change more books like this by Chet S Lancaster see all copies from $3.87! new only from $11.00! \| first editions
17 view cover	The Mothers the Matriarchal Theory of Social Origins more books like this by Robert Briffault 1931. Contents: Social Relations Among Animals; Motherhood and Human Origins; The Rule of Exogamy; Matrilocal Marriage; The Maternal Clan; Primitive Economic Conditions; The Position of Women in Matriarchal Societies; Primitive Sex Relations; Patriarchal Marriage; Patriarchal Morality; and The Matriarchal Phase in Historical Civilization. see all copies from $17.50! first editions
18 view cover	When She Was Electric more books like this by Andrea MacPherson When She Was Electric is an evocative portrait of a family and a small town torn apart by losses. At the heart of this subtle, textured novel is a wrenching disruption - the death of a young girl in a sleepy town. The book tells the story of three generations of women: the resourceful grandmother who turned unwanted land into a thriving enterprise ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.89! \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Black Atlantic Religion: Tradition, Transnationalism, and Matriarchy in the Afro-Brazilian Candomble more books like this by J Lorand Matory "Black Atlantic Religion" illuminates the mutual transformation of African and African-American cultures, highlighting the example of the Afro-Brazilian Candomble religion. This book contests both the recent conviction that transnationalism is new and the long-held supposition that African culture endures in the Americas only among the poorest and ... see all copies from $26.95! new only from $26.95! \| SVS
20 view cover	Make a Beautiful Way: The Wisdom of Native American Women more books like this by Barbara Alice Mann (Editor), Winona LaDuke (Foreword by) "Make a Beautiful Way" is nothing less than a new way of looking at history - or more correctly, the re-establishment of a very old way. For too long, Euro-American discourse styles, emphasizing elite male privilege and conceptual linearity, have drowned out democratic and woman-centred Native approaches. Even when myopic western linearity is ... see all copies from $7.98! new only from $10.98! \| SVS
21	Coming Matriarchy more books like this by Elizabeth Nickles see all copies from $1.99! signed copies \| first editions
22 view cover	Re-Inventing Africa: Matriarchy, Religion and Culture more books like this by Ifi Amadiume Challenging western anthropologists to recognize their own class-based, patriarchal thought, Ifi Amadiume, the author of "Male Daughters, Female Husbands", issues a clarion call for a new understanding of Africa. Amadiume shows how conventional anthropology has consistently imposed European ideas of the "natural" nuclear family, woman as a passive ... see all copies from $8.49! new only from $8.49!
23 view cover	An English Translation of Bachofen's Mutterrecht (Mother Right) (1861): A Study of the Religious and Juridical Aspects of Gynecocracy in the Ancient World more books like this by Johann Jakob Bachofen Mutterrecht (Mother Right) by Johann Jakob Bachofen was the seminal document of the 19th century concerning the role of women in ancient societies. Bachofen documented that motherhood is the source of human society, religion, morality, and decency in societies including Lycia, Crete, Greece, Egypt, India, Central Asia, Northern Africa, and Spain. ... see all copies from $65.00! new only from $126.63!
24	Silent Looms: Women and Production in a Guatemalan Town more books like this by Tracy B. Ehlers see all copies from $6.50! new only from $8.98!
25	Black Matriarchy: Myth or Reality? more books like this by John H Bracey see all copies from $2.20! first editions

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