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Amazons in America : matriarchs, utopians, and wonder women in U.S. popular culture / Keira V. Williams.
Van Pelt Library HQ1073.5.U6 W55 2019
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Williams, Keira V., 1976- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--United States--Social conditions.
- Women.
- Amazons.
- History.
- Matriarchy.
- United States.
- Social conditions.
- Matriarchy--United States--History.
- Popular culture--United States--History.
- Popular culture.
- Amazons--History.
- Women--Social conditions.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 340 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2019]
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780807170472
- 080717047X
- 0807170860
- 9780807170861
- OCLC:
- 1043585395
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