| | 1 | Author: | Vaerting, Mathilde, 1884 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Dominant Sex: A Study in the Sociology of Sex Differentiation, by Mathilde and Mathias Vaerting; translated
from the German by Eden and Cedar Paul / Vaerting, Mathilde, 1884-  | | | | Published: | 2000 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | TESTIMONY concerning the dominance of women
among various peoples differs greatly in comprehensiveness.
As regards the ancient Egyptians such
abundant evidence is forthcoming that the existence of
feminine dominance as far as this people is concerned
has been placed beyond question for all who have
studied the matter objectively. In the case of the
Spartans the historical traces are perhaps less numerous,
but they are so plain as to leave no doubt as to
the reality of the dominance of women in that nation.
In both instances, therefore, we have proof of the existence
of feminine dominance among civilised peoples.
As far as savages are concerned, the most detailed
reports that have come to hand anent the dominance
of women relate to the Kamchadales, the Chamorros,
the Iroquois, the Basque-Iberian stocks, the Garos, the
Dyaks, and the Balonda. In addition there were, for
example, the Libyans, among whom it is demonstrable
that the dominance of women was once absolute at
a time when they were at least in an intermediate
stage between barbarism and civilisation. We find,
moreover, fairly definite traces of the dominance of
women among numerous races in the most diverse
phases of development; for instance in Tibet and in
Burma, among the Khonds, the Creeks, etc. Bachofen
has shown that matriarchy (the mother-right) existed
in Lycia, Crete, Athens, Lemnos, Egypt, India and
Central Asia, Orchomenos and Minyae, Elis, Locris,
Lesbos, Mantinea, and among the Cantabri. In
Bachofen's terminology, matriarchy (Mutterrecht) is
synonymous with the dominance of women. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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