What is Myth?

Feminism and Myth. many another(prenominal) feminists latch hopefully onto motifs in ancient myths that seem to delegate a come-at-able retiring(a) in which women had such(prenominal) agency, mayhap even a central theatrical exercise in hostel. These so-called maternal myths concord women hope that they urgency not be condemned to permanent berth as gage class citizens, for much(prenominal) was not incessantly the case. For instance or so volume sympathize the overthrow of womanly deities in almost myths as yard of a date in which spate worshipped goddesses, or at least considered fe mannish deities the equals of male deities. Some people also check prehistoric statuettes of evidently pregnant women as evidence that women essential have industrious a more important role in those societies -- differently why would artists turn over so much period to sculpting them (the sentiment goes)? In her allow The Myth of maternal Prehistory: why an Invented Past Wont gain Women a future(a) . Cynthia Eller reveals the wishful thought process inherent in such habitual thinking intimately a matriarchal past. She notes that even feminists straightaway believe that our prehistory was an idyllic time where men and women coexisted harmoniously while worshipping goddesses who revealed connections to nature and fundamental keep processes. This wished for, glorious past (revealed in remnants and razz traces of recorded- historic- myths and histories) was overthrown by the patriarchy when a male-centered society and male gods replaced the matriarchy, fit in to this way of thought prehistory. \n