Amazons .... were conquerors, horse tamers, and huntresses who gave birth to children but did not nurse or rear them [these Amazons being the aforementioned "feminist wing"][.]
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Mothers and Amazons (trans. 1965 (original 1930s)), p. 123.Helen Diner
[She described Amazons, who battled against Greeks, as] an extreme, feminist wing of a young human race, whose other extreme wing consisted of the stringent patriarchies.
Bertha (a.k.a. Helen Diner) Diener
[She described Amazons, who battled against Greeks, as] an extreme, feminist wing of a young human race, whose other extreme wing consisted of the stringent patriarchies.
Helen Diner
Of all the African Amazons, only the Gorgons seem to have maintained a pure Amazon state; the others, though keeping the army purely feminine, maintained some men in their camps. [Among] [t]he Libyan Amazons ....[,] [t]he women monopolized government and other influential positions. In contrast to the later Thermodontines, however, they lived in a permanent relationship with their sex partners, even though the men led a retiring life, could not hold public office, and had no right to interfere in the government of the state or society. Children, who were brought up on mare's milk, were given to the men to rear[.]
Bertha (a.k.a. Helen Diner) Diener
Of all the African Amazons, only the Gorgons seem to have maintained a pure Amazon state; the others, though keeping the army purely feminine, maintained some men in their camps. [Among] [t]he Libyan Amazons ....[,] [t]he women monopolized government and other influential positions. In contrast to the later Thermodontines, however, they lived in a permanent relationship with their sex partners, even though the men led a retiring life, could not hold public office, and had no right to interfere in the government of the state or society. Children, who were brought up on mare's milk, were given to the men to rear[.]
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