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Il potere femminile: Storia e Teoria

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Un tempo, prima dell’organizzazione patriarcale, l’umanità è passata attraverso due quello della promiscuità sessuale e quello del matriarcato. Questo sosteneva Bachofen, versatile figura che ha saputo muoversi con grande intelligenza tra filosofia, sociologia, archeologia e psicologia. La teoria del matriarcato di Bachofen venne fatta propria dal marxismo per dimostrare la transitorietà della famiglia borghese e costituì materia di disputa per Freud e Jung nello sviluppo della contrapposizione tra femminilità e virilità nella struttura della psiche. In tempi più recenti è stata recuperata dai movimenti femministi per dimostrare come il potere maschile non abbia rappresentato una costante storica.

199 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 25, 2021

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Johann Jakob Bachofen

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Johann Jakob Bachofen (22 December 1815 – 25 November 1887) was a Swiss antiquarian, jurist, philologist, anthropologist, and professor for Roman law at the University of Basel from 1841 to 1845.

Bachofen is most often connected with his theories surrounding prehistoric matriarchy, or Das Mutterrecht, the title of his seminal 1861 book Mother Right: an investigation of the religious and juridical character of matriarchy in the Ancient World. Bachofen assembled documentation demonstrating that motherhood is the source of human society, religion, morality, and decorum. He postulated an archaic "mother-right" within the context of a primeval Matriarchal religion or Urreligion.

Bachofen became an important precursor of 20th-century theories of matriarchy, such as the Old European culture postulated by Marija Gimbutas from the 1950s, and the field of feminist theology and "matriarchal studies" in 1970s feminism.

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