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Subject: matriarchies
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Date: Sun, 1-Jan-84 15:58:18 EST
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From:  LIz <SOMMERS@RUTGERS.ARPA>


You will find matriarchies in Joanna Russ' The Female Man and many of
her other books.  (I like this book - even though most of my friends
think it is terrible - of course I like Dahlgren also...)

A very interesting matriarchy is in (author unremembered and my books
are still packed) the two book series containing

Walk to the End of the World
Motherlines.

liz//

Ps.  These are both in the radical feminist-lesbian tradition - but
they are definitly science fiction.  If you are interested in
matriarchies per se - try Jane Harrison's Themis - published early in
this century but reprinted within the last ten years.  This book deals
with the conflict between matriarchy and patriarchy in Hellenic Greece
as a source of myth.

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