Wheeler-Barclay, Marjorie „Jane Ellen Harrison“, . The Science of Religion in Britain, 1860-1915, Victorian Literature and Culture Series. University of Virginia Press, 2010 — 231-bet. ISBN 9780813930107. „[I]t was her interest in matriarchal religion and her insistence on its importance that most distinctly set her apart from other British scholars.... As early as 1900, she made note of the evidence of an older stratum of religion--the worship of earth goddesses--lying beneath Olympianism and supplanted it.“
Bachofen, Johann Jakob. Myth, Religion, and Mother Right: Selected Writings. Princeton University Press, 1992 — 93-bet. ISBN 9780691017976. Qaraldi: 2012-yil 12-dekabr. „Although the struggle of matriarchy against other forms is revealed by diverse phenomena, the underlying principle of development is clear. Matriarchy is followed by patriarchy and preceded by unregulated hetaerism.“
Eller, Cynthia „Ancient Matriarchies in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Feminist Thought“, . The Encyclopedia of Women and Religion in North America Rosemary Skinner Keller:. Indiana University Press, 2006. ISBN 9780253346872. Qaraldi: 2012-yil 12-dekabr. „It restated the theories of Bachofen and Morgan but construed the era of ancient matriarchy as a golden age of sorts and described the patriarchal revolution as simultaneous with the evils (and benefits) of private property and the state.“
