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Title: The Position of Woman in Primitive Society
A Study of the Matriarchy

Author: C. Gasquoine Hartley

Release Date: March 4, 2010 [EBook #31500]

Language: English

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THE POSITION OF WOMAN IN PRIMITIVE SOCIETY

BY THE SAME AUTHOR

THE TRUTH ABOUT WOMAN

_BOOKS ON ART_

A RECORD OF SPANISH PAINTING
THE PRADO (Spanish Series)
EL GRECO "
VELAZQUEZ "
PICTURES IN THE TATE GALLERY

_BOOKS ON SPAIN_

MOORISH CITIES IN SPAIN
THINGS SEEN IN SPAIN
SPAIN REVISITED: A SUMMER HOLIDAY IN GALICIA
SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA (Mediaeval Towns' Series)
CATHEDRALS OF SOUTHERN AND EASTERN SPAIN

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

PART I

THE PRIMITIVE FAMILY

CHAP. PAGE

I INTRODUCTORY 11

II AN EXPOSITION OF BACHOFEN'S THEORY OF THE MATRIARCHATE