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Among the Lycians, whose affinity to the Greeks was so pronounced, a matriarchate prevailed down to the time of Herodotus. Not the name only, but the inheritance and status of the children depended on the mother. The Lycians “honoured women rather than men;” they are represented “as being accustomed from of old to be ruled by their women.” Grote, History of Greece, Vol. III, p. 95.
The writer, after speaking of the interest to women of the mother-age and the difficulty there was in gaining information on the subject, said that “a small and cheaper book on the matriarchate would be useful to women in all countries.” I was grateful for this suggestion. I at once felt that I wanted to write such a book.
The reversion to the prehistoric matriarchate can hardly be complete in these days, but there are many significant straws that indicate the rising of a new wind blown by ancient instincts. To look upon them as shockingly advanced or abnormal is an evidence of conservatism that does not reach quite far enough into the past.
Such an exclusion points to the family being unimportant in early times, the matriarchate perhaps then excluding the responsibility of the man. In the earliest form the prominence of duties is in the order of those to equals, to inferiors, to gods, and to the man's own character.
This system may even be combined with the patriarchal authority of the male. The unfortunate use of the term Matriarchate has led to much confusion.
The Status of Woman The Historical Tendency Favoring Moral Equality of Women with Men The Theory of the Matriarchate Mother-Descent Women in Babylonia Egypt Rome The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries The Historical Tendency Favoring Moral Inequality of Woman The Ambiguous Influence of Christianity Influence of Teutonic Custom and Feudalism Chivalry Woman in England The Sale of Wives The Vanishing Subjection of Woman Inaptitude of the Modern Man to Domineer The Growth of Moral Responsibility in Women The Concomitant Development of Economic Independence The Increase of Women Who Work Invasion of the Modern Industrial Field by Women In How Far This Is Socially Justifiable The Sexual Responsibility of Women and Its Consequences The Alleged Moral Inferiority of Women The "Self-Sacrifice" of Women Society Not Concerned with Sexual Relationships Procreation the Sole Sexual Concern of the State The Supreme Importance of Maternity.
Compare the myth of Iphigenia's salvation by Diana. 3. 'To that place the sharp Athenian law cannot pursue, i. 172. What Grecian states had laws more lenient to women? 4. What traces can be found in history or legend of the victory of Theseus over the Amazons, and the rise of a new civic order on the ruins of a matriarchate? 5. Explanation of allusions to Phoebe, Cupid, Ercles, etc.
There is another fact that must be noted. The general characteristic of the Berber family seems to have been the privileged position they accorded to their women, privileges so great that we meet with strong tendencies towards the matriarchate.
Wells does not, indeed, say this. He rejects the mother-age, and in questioning my acceptance of it as a stage in the past histories of societies, he writes: “The primitive matriarchate never was anything more than mother at the washing-tub and father looking miserable.” It seems to me that here, in his own inimitable way, Mr. His statement has very far-reaching considerations.
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