Introduction: the multiple meanings of matriarchies in American history -- Gynecocracy in the gilded age: the intellectual and historical foundations of American matriarchalism -- Mother-rule in the modern world: Victorian feminist matriarchalism -- White queens and African amazons: imperial matriarchalism at the Chicago World's Fair -- Witches, wizards, and women of cast iron: American matriarchalism goes mainstream -- Like coming home to mother: progressive era matriarchalism -- The amazing amazon: Wonder Woman's matriarchalist superheroics -- Vipers and momarchies: mid-century antimatriarchalism -- Goddesses, earth mothers, and female men: the matriarchies of the women's liberation movement -- Mammies, matriarchs, and welfare queens: racist matriarchalism -- Epilogue: Madeas and the manosphere: American matriarchalism in the early twenty-first century.
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