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The Position of Woman in Primitive Society

by C. Gasquoine Hartley

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  1. 1Dedication
  2. 2Part I — The Primitive Family
  3. 3Chapter II — An Exposition of Bachofen’s Theory of the Matriarchate
  4. 4Chapter III — Difficulties and Objections: An Attempt to Reconcile…
  5. 5Chapter IV — Development in the Patriarchal Family and the Rise of…
  6. 6Part II — The Mother-Age Civilisation
  7. 7Chapter V — The Matriarchal Family Among the American Indians
  8. 8Chapter VI — The Maternal Family Among the Khasis
  9. 9Chapter VII — Further Examples of the Maternal Family
  10. 10Chapter VIII — Mother-Right Customs and the Transition to Father-Right
  11. 11Chapter IX — Women and Primitive Industry
  12. 12Chapter X — Traces of Mother-Right Customs in Ancient and Modern Ci…
  13. 13Chapter XI — The Survivals of Mother-Right in Folk-Lore, in Heroic…
  14. 14Chapter XII — Concluding Remarks

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