The Historic Defeat of the Female Sex: Revisiting Engels' The Origin of the Family
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The Origins of Matriarchy
According to Morgan, the earliest form of human society was a group marriage within which it seemed like anybody could have sexual relations with anybody else. Within that women had far greater rights than they have in today's society because of the lack of private property. I think it basically does say that from the research available at the time it seems as though this kind of fundamental communistic collective society was the first human society," she says.
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