Myth, matriarchy and modernity : Johann Jakob Bachofen in German culture, 1860-1945 (engelsk)

Note on Translation. Preface, An Uncomfortable Influence 1. Bachofen in the Nineteenth Century: Myth, Gender, Modernity 2. The Nature of Authority and the Authority of Nature: Anthropology, Marxism and Germanic Mysticism 3. Mother Right and the Women's Movement 4. Matriarchy and the Literature of the Fin-de-siècle 5. 'Psychoanalyste avant la lettre?' Bachofen, Mythic Motherhood, and Psychoanalysis 6. Prophets of Matriarchal Revolution: Otto Gross and Expressionism 7. The Struggle for Johann Jakob Bachofen' Philology and Politics in the 1920s 8. Myth, Symbol, Modernity: Bachofen in Literary Works of the 1920s 9. Feminine Myth and Masculine Politics: National Socialism and Matriarchy 10. Antifascist Bodies and Dialectical Mythologies: Bachofen in the anti-Nazi Struggle