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Courtship with a Club: wife-capture in prehistoric fiction, 1865-1914.(Essay)

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Supposedly, when a Stone Age man was ready to mate, he would ambush a woman from another tribe, beat her senseless with his club, and drag her back to his cave by the hair. This scenario, which might be referred to as the motif of 'wife-capture', is one that metaphorically still informs sexual politics today, and remains a characteristic of the popular cultural stereotype of the 'Cave Man'. But since there is absolutely no physical, anthropological evidence whatever to indicate that our Palaeolithic ancestors behaved thus, how did the motif arise, and how has it and related aspects of Stone Age sexual politics been negotiated in and disseminated by prehistoric ...

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