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Rachel Rachel
Rachel , in the Bible, wife of Jacob and mother of Joseph and Benjamin . She is one of the four Jewish matriarchs. An alternate form is Rahel.... Read more
Rebecca Rebecca
Rebecca ( Rebekah). Wife of Isaac and one of the matriarchs of Israel. According to aggadah, while she was pregnant, whenever she passed a house of Torah study, Jacob struggled to get out, but when she passed a temple containing idols, Esau struggled to get out. She was buried in the cave of... Read more
Etta James Etta James
Etta James Singer, songwriter Etta James was once among the most woefully overlooked figures in the history of blues and rock. She began finally coming into her own in the 1990s, receiving industry awards that confirmed her status as one of the matriarchs of modern music. James influenced a variety... Read more
Fellowship of Isis Fellowship of Isis
Fellowship of Isis An international, neopagan religious organization founded in 1976 by author and painter Olivia Robertson to revive worship and communion with the feminine principle of the deity in the form of the goddess Isis and to promote knowledge of the world's matriarchal religions. The... Read more
primitive communism primitive communism
Communism, Primitive BIBLIOGRAPHY Primitive communism is the earliest mode of production in Marxist thought. Karl Marx proposed that Asiatic, ancient, feudal, and bourgeois modes of production are epochs that mark the transitions of societies. Also, the changes in the mode of production from... Read more
Amazon Amazon
Amazon , in Greek mythology, one of a tribe of warlike women who lived in Asia Minor. The Amazons had a matriarchal society, in which women fought and governed while men performed the household tasks. Each Amazon had to kill a man before she could marry, and all male children were either killed or... Read more
Johann Jakob Bachofen Johann Jakob Bachofen
Johann Jakob Bachofen , 1815-87, Swiss legal historian and antiquarian. Bachofen studied in Berlin, Göttingen, Paris, and Cambridge, and accepted only honorary offices in order to safeguard his independence. He analyzed myths and archaeological artifacts in an attempt to reconstruct the... Read more
Thomas Savage Thomas Savage
Savage, Thomas (1915– ),novelist. Born in Utah, Savage grew up in Montana, where some of his most powerful and characteristic works have their setting. The Power of the Dog (1967) deals with a complicated Montana ranching family and involves family jealousy, suppressed homosexuality, and a... Read more
Margaret Beaufort Margaret Beaufort
Margaret Beaufort Margaret Beaufort (1443-1509) survived the violent conflicts of the Wars of the Roses and went on to become the matriarch of one of England's most prominent royal dynasties. Her son, Henry VII, took the throne in 1485, becoming the first of the Tudor monarchs who would rule... Read more
Judith Anderson Judith Anderson
Judith Anderson Judith Anderson (1898-1992) rose to prominence on stage and in films in America in the 1930s and 1940s, playing classical tragic heroines and dark character roles. She was probably most widely known for her film portrayals of the soap opera matriarch Minx Lockridge on NBC's Santa... Read more

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