informed by work on the matriarchies of the past: According to Prof. LindaZerilli [it], "an ancient matriarchy ... [was "in early second-wave feminism"]
a new Amazonianism." These interpretations are not universal, as Linda M.G. Zerilli argued that more important was Monique Wittig's creation of an "'open
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