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[The Wave, by William Adolphe Bouguereau (1825-1905)]

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Bombard, Alain: The Voyage of the Heretique - The Bombard Story

Briffault, Robert: The Mothers

Bulfinch, Thomas: Myths Of Greece And Rome

Cunliffe, Barry: Facing The Ocean: The Atlantic and its peoples; 8000 – AD 1500

Daly, Mary: Gyn/Ecology

Davis, Elizabeth Gould: The First Sex

Davis-Kimball, Jeannine: Warrior Women

De Waal, Frans: Bonobo: The Forgotten Ape

Eisler, Riane: The Chalice And The Blade

Figes, Eva: Patriarchal Attitudes

Friedan, Betty: The Feminine Mystique

Fromm, Erich and Funk, Rainer: Love, Sexuality, and Matriarchy: About Gender

Gachot, Theodore; Mermaids: Nymphs Of The Sea

Gadon, Elinor W. The Once And Future Goddess

Gimbutas, Marija: The Gods and Goddesses Of All Europe
Gimbutas, Marija: The Language Of The Goddess 
Gimbutas, Marija: The Civilisation Of The Goddess

Goodall, Jane: In the Shadow of Man
Goodall, Jane: Reason For Hope; A Spiritual Journey

Goldberg, Steven: The Inevitability of Patriarchy

Graves, Robert: The White Goddess

Greer, Germaine: The Female Eunuch

Grossman, Lt. Col. Dave, On Killing: The Psychological Cost 0f Learning To Kill in War and Society

Hancock, Graham: Underworld

Harrison, Jane: Prologomena To The Study Of Greek Religion

Heyerdahl, Thor: Sea Routes To Poynesia – The Kon-Tiki Expedition

Jahme, Carole: Beauty And The Beasts
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Lyons, Alana: Now It’s Our Turn

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Markale, Jean: Women Of The Celts

Massey, Gerald: Ancient Egypt

Mears, Ray and Gordon Hillman: Wild Food

Mellaart J: Catal Huyuk: A Neolithic Town In Anatolia

Meyerowitz, Eva: The Akan Of Ghan 
Meyerowitz, Eva: The Sacred State Of The Akan

Miles, Rosalind: The Women's History Of The World

Moir, Ann and David Jessel: Brain Sex

Montagu, Ashley: The Natural Superiority Of Women

Mookerjee, Ajit: Kali: The Feminine Force

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Morgan, Elaine: The Aquatic Ape Hypothesis

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Murray, Margaret:  The God Of The Witches

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Pirani, Alix: The Absent Mother

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Reed, Evelyn:  Sexism And Science

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[Photograph by Fosco Maraini, from his book, Hekura, The Diving Girl's Island, of an ama diver returning to the surface.]

[“Sea Nymphs”, by Albert Laurens]
 

Web Sites

Lynne Cox

http://www.lynnecox.org/aboutlynne.htm

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/02/12/60II/main540357.shtml

Tanya Streeter

http://www.redefineyourlimits.com/

http://www.graychase.com/2006/11/tanya-streeter-interview-2003.html

Female Swimming performance

http://www.hhp.ufl.edu/keepingfit/ARTICLE/femaleswim.htm

http://scuba-doc.com/coldjolie.html

Mermaid Myths

http://www.orkneyjar.com/folklore/finfolk/mermaid.htm

http://www.isidore-of-seville.com/mermaids/index.html

http://www.firstpeople.us/FP-Html-Legends/Ne-Hwas-The-Mermaid-Passamaquoddy.html
Bonobo Apes

http://www.blockbonobofoundation.org/ http://williamcalvin.com/teaching/bonobo.htm

http://www.bonobo.org/

http://www.primatesworld.com/BonobosLikeHumans.html
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/2010/05/27/why-bonobos-will-save-the-world/
http://online.wsj.com/article/NA_WSJ_PUB:SB10001424052748704471504574449012560741086.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/06/science/06conv.html?_r=1&_r

Women Divers in Russia

www.ivin.narod.ru/scallops/fishing.htm

http://www.udc.es/dep/bave/jfreire/pdf_ecologia_gestion_pesquerias/Dynamics_scallop_populations.pdf

Jacques Cousteau

http://www.gmsys.net/prosjekt/csp/glimpses4.htm

Ami People of Taiwan

http://edu.ocac.gov.tw/local/tour_aboriginal/english/a/05.htm

http://cta.yam.org.tw/cta27.htm

Australian aborigines women peal divers

http://www.mesa.edu.au/cams/module14/readings.htm

http://www.abc.net.au/dimensions/dimensions_in_time/Transcripts/s921715.htm

http://www.cultureandrecreation.gov.au/articles/pearling/

http://www.lonelyplanet.com/worldguide/destinations/pacific/australia/western-australia/broome?v=print

http://www.divingheritage.com/pearldivingkern.htm

Tasmanian Natives

http://discovermagazine.com/1993/mar/tenthousandyears189

http://epress.anu.edu.au/aborig_history/axe/mobile_devices/ch07.html

http://www.cwo.com/~lucumi/tasmania.html

http://kr.cs.ait.ac.th/~radok/discaust/DIARTAS4.HTM

http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/AS10318b.htm

http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/diamond/diamond_p5.html

http://kr.cs.ait.ac.th/~radok/discaust/DIARTAS4.HTM

Tierra Del Fuego Natives

http://www.victory-cruises.com/yagancanoes.htm l

http://itotd.com/articles/470/extinction-of-the-yamana/

Sea Gypsies

http://www.projectmaje.org/gypsies.htm

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Haenyo Divers

http://www.projectmaje.org/gypsies.htm

http://www.skynews.co.kr/article_view.asp?mcd=68&ccd=6&scd=2&ano=28

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http://www.kimsoft.com/1997/cheju.htm

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Ama Divers

http://www.cdnn.info/news/industry/i060429.html

http://www.uhms.org/PRESSURE/JASO_05/jaso-PG6.htm

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http://www.buzzle.com/editorials/8-23-2006-106429.asp

http://www.fundoshi-bikini.net/capture/ama/capture-ama.htm

http://www.fundoshi-bikini.net/nihon-fundoshi/amafun/amafundoshi.htm

http://www.fundoshi-bikini.net/nihon-fundoshi/shigoto/nf(shigoto).htm

Early Humans in America

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/430944.stm

http://edition.cnn.com/NATURE/9906/08/ancient.woman/

http://www.indiana.edu/~arch/saa/matrix/saa/saa_mod02.html

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/5398850.stm

Fishing Women

http://www.icsf.net/jsp/publication/dossiers/wif/Women%20in%20Fisheries.pdf

http://www.worldfishcenter.org/Pubs/Wif/wifglobal/wifg_oceania.pdf

http://www.spc.org.nc/coastfish/News/WIF/WiF2.pdf

http://www.globaleducation.edna.edu.au/archives/secondary/casestud/marshall_islands/1/fisheries.html

http://www.worldfishcenter.org/Pubs/Gender&FisheriesDec04/9_GD.pdf

http://www.boloji.com/wfs5/wfs769.htm

Ray Mears

http://www.raymears.com/index.cfm

Polynesians and Thor Heyerdahl

http://users.on.net/~mkfenn/

http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/ancient/AncientRepublish_1227059.htm

http://www.livescience.com/history/060219_kelp_highway.htm http://kintespace.com/rasx42.html

http://www2.norway.or.jp/policy/nansen_lecture/96heyerdahl.htm

Pearl Fishing

http://www.cultureandrecreation.gov.au/articles/pearling/index.htm

http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~tonyf/islandtrade/islandtrade.html

Alain Bombard

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,60-1704632,00.html

Stone Age People

http://www.aliciapatterson.org/APF001973/Rensberger/Rensberger08/Rensberger08.html

http://donsmaps.com/ukrainevenus.html

Phoenicians

http://www.phoenician.org/ancient_ships.htm

http://www.askwhy.co.uk/analogiesandconjectures/Americaphoen01.php

Caral

http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/horizon/2001/caral.shtml

http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0103/p11s1-woam.html
http://enperublog.com/2010/10/16/the-caral-figurines/ 

Indus Valley Civilization

http://members.tripod.com/sympweb/IndusValleyhistory.htm

Neolithic towns and cities

http://users.hol.gr/~dilos/prehis/prerm5.htm

http://www.focusmm.com/civcty/cathyk00.htm

Kerala

http://www.hinduismtoday.com/archives/1996/2/1996-2-03.shtml

Matriarchy

http://www.saunalahti.fi/penelope/Feminism/

http://www.angelfire.com/pr/red/feminism/challenge_of_the_matriarchy.htm

http://matriarchy.info/

http://www.suppressedhistories.net/

Aquatic Ape Theory

http://users.ugent.be/~mvaneech/outthere.htm

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/science/scarsofevolution.shtml

http://www.primitivism.com/aquatic-ape.htm

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AAT/

http://www.livescience.com/history/060316_peace_violence.html

http://www.coconutstudio.com/bornfat.htm#Are%20humans%20fat

Marija Gimbutas

http://www.levity.com/mavericks/gimbut.htm

http://www.originsnet.org/kbjh.pdf

http://www.carnaval.com/goddess/

Malaria

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/194160.stm

http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/2004/07/17/sweet_wormwood_heals_malaria.htm

Mosuo

http://www.cpamedia.com/travel/sirens_lugu_lake/
http://www.lugu-lake.com/en/english.htm
http://www.vanhoahoc.edu.vn/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=953&Itemid=65



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[Photograph by Fosco Maraini, from his book, Hekura, The Diving Girl's Island.]





[Photograph by Fosco Maraini, from his book, Hekura, The Diving Girl's Island.]

[Photograph by Fosco Maraini, from his book, Hekura, The Diving Girl's Island.]