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The Position of Woman in Primitive Society, subtitled A Study of the Matriarchy, is by C. Gasquoine Hartley. The author says that the book is an expansion of the historical section which treats of the Mother-age civilisation in a former book, The Truth About Woman. The text records that the author's belief in the favourable influence of mother-descent on the status of women has been much questioned.
The book describes the Padang Highlanders of Sumatra, who live in village communities, with long timber houses placed in barrack-like rows. One dwelling there will contain as many as a hundred people, who form a sa-mandei, or mother-hood. The text says that as soon as the women’s kindred found in their women the possibility of gaining worldly goods for themselves, they began to claim service and presents from their lovers.
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- C. Gasquoine Hartley
- Reading time
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- Pages
- 145
- Language
- English
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- Sociology
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