The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future"In prehistorical times, Eisler argues, women and men lived together in egalitarian communities devoted to nurturance; with the imposition of male domination, female values gave way to creeds of hierarchy, aggression, power, obedience. Eisler, a futurist, posits a new society based on the recovery of more humane values."--From Library journal (6/1/85). |
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... advances did not bring about the kind of historical discontinuity we see elsewhere . In the societies of southern Mesopotamia we find rigid social stratification and constant warfare by about 3500 B.C.E. , along with the declining ...
... advances did not bring about the kind of historical discontinuity we see elsewhere . In the societies of southern Mesopotamia we find rigid social stratification and constant warfare by about 3500 B.C.E. , along with the declining ...
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... advances were used primarily to make life more pleasurable rather than to dominate and destroy . This leads back to the fundamental distinction between the cultural evolution of dominator and partnership societies . It also points to ...
... advances were used primarily to make life more pleasurable rather than to dominate and destroy . This leads back to the fundamental distinction between the cultural evolution of dominator and partnership societies . It also points to ...
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... advance for humanity ? Was explosive industrial overexpansion , the regimentation of whole populations into assembly lines , the ... advances plunged us into our secular - technological age ? By the last quarter of the twentieth century ...
... advance for humanity ? Was explosive industrial overexpansion , the regimentation of whole populations into assembly lines , the ... advances plunged us into our secular - technological age ? By the last quarter of the twentieth century ...
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