The Matriarchy Mystery
For my mother
The canonical position of anthropology is that over 1500 human societies have existed, but not one has been a matriarchy. As Gerda Lerner put it in her book The Creation of Patriarchy (OUP, 1986), 'defining matriarchy as the mirror image of patriarchy, I would conclude that no matriarchal society has ever existed' (p.3…