"The breadth of this well-written, carefully theorized, and deeply researched book is impressive. Engaging with a wide and inventive range of texts over the last 100-plus years--from feminist theory to political rhetoric to comic books to novels to film--Amazons in America explores the varied invocations, shifting meanings, and sometimes unsavory implications of matriarchalist thought in American public life."--Bonnie J. Dow, author of Watching Women's Liberation, 1970: Feminism's Pivotal Year on the Network News