Chapter 6. Prophets of Matriarchal Revolution: Otto Gross and Expressionism

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents IX
3. Preface. An Uncomfortable Influence 1
4. Chapter 1. Bachofen in the Nineteenth Century: Myth, Gender, Modernity 7
5. Chapter 2. The Nature of Authority and the Authority of Nature: Anthropology, Marxism and Germanic Mysticism 49
6. Chapter 3. Mother Right and the Women's Movement 107
7. Chapter 4. Matriarchy and the Literature of the Fin-de-siècle 163
8. Chapter 5. 'Psychoanalyste avant la lettre?' Bachofen, Mythic Motherhood, and Psychoanalysis 217
9. Chapter 6. Prophets of Matriarchal Revolution: Otto Gross and Expressionism 243
10. Chapter 7. 'The Struggle for Johann Jakob Bachofen' Philology and Politics in the 1920s 285
11. Chapter 8. Myth, Symbol, Modernity: Bachofen in Literary Works of the 1920s 311
12. Chapter 9. Feminine Myth and Masculine Politics: National Socialism and Matriarchy 351
13. Chapter 10. Antifascist Bodies and Dialectical Mythologies: Bachofen in the anti-Nazi Struggle 389
14. Backmatter 421