Amazons in America

• Verfasst von: Williams, Keira V. [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Amazons in America
• Titelzusatz: matriarchs, utopians, and wonder women in U.S. popular culture
• Verf.angabe: Keira V. Williams
• Verlagsort: Baton Rouge
• Verlag: Louisiana State University Press
• E-Jahr: 2019
• Jahr: [2019]
• Umfang: VII, 340 Seiten
• Fussnoten: Includes bibliographical references and index
• ISBN: 978-0-8071-7047-2
• ISBN: 978-0-8071-7086-1
• ISBN: 978-0-8071-7085-4
• Schlagwörter: (g)USA / (s)Frau / (s)Geschlechterrolle / (s)Matriarchat / (s)Volkskultur / (s)Geschichte
• Sprache: eng
• K10plus-PPN: 1028556829

Abstract

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