On Tues May 14, 6:30pm (London time), Chris Knight, founder of Radical Anthropology Group and author of Blood Relations: Menstruation and the origins of culture, is speaking LIVE in the Daryll Forde Room, 2nd Floor of the UCL Anthropology Dept. You can also join us on ZOOM (ID 384 186 2174 passcode Wawilak)
Chris discusses myths of matriarchy, which are found all over the world. Is there any truth in the idea that women once exercised political power over men? Many feminists have dismissed such stories as ideological narratives invented simply to justify men’s rule. Does biology prevent women from exercising real political power? Does sexism prevail everywhere? Has patriarchy always existed? There will be discussion of the ethnographic, archaeological and genetic evidence for and against these ideas.