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IN PRIMITIVE SOCIETY

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THE
POSITION OF WOMAN
IN PRIMITIVE SOCIETY

A
STUDY OF THE MATRIARCHY

BY
C. GASQUOINE HARTLEY
(MRS. WALTER M. GALLICHAN)
AUTHOR OF “THE TRUTH ABOUT WOMAN.”

LONDON
EVELEIGH NASH
1914

DEDICATION


TO ALL WOMEN

“Be not ashamed, women, your privilege includes the rest....
You are the gates of the body, you are the gates of the soul....
And I say it is as great to be a woman as to be a man.
And I say there is nothing greater than the mother of men.”
Walt Whitman.

7 Carlton Terrace,
Child’s Hill.
1914.

CONTENTS[vii]

PART I
THE PRIMITIVE FAMILY
CHAP. PAGE
IINTRODUCTORY 11
IIAN EXPOSITION OF BACHOFEN’S THEORY OFTHE MATRIARCHATE26
IIIDIFFICULTIES AND OBJECTIONS: AN ATTEMPTTO RECONCILE MOTHER-RIGHT WITH THEPATRIARCHAL THEORY45
IVDEVELOPMENT IN THE PATRIARCHAL FAMILYAND THE RISE OF MOTHER-POWER67
PART II
THE MOTHER AGE CIVILISATION
VTHE MATRIARCHAL FAMILY AMONG THEAMERICAN INDIANS95
VITHE MATERNAL FAMILY AMONG THE KHASIS132
VIIFURTHER EXAMPLES OF THE MATERNAL FAMILY147
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