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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... androcratic resistance to this ev- olutionary thrust . The official Greek religion was in key respects a dom- inator religion : Zeus establishes and maintains his supremacy through acts of cruelty and barbarism , including his many ...
... androcratic resistance to this ev- olutionary thrust . The official Greek religion was in key respects a dom- inator religion : Zeus establishes and maintains his supremacy through acts of cruelty and barbarism , including his many ...
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... androcratic rule , the meaning of our most important symbols has often shifted radically through the impact of gylanic resurgence or androcratic regression . A striking example is the cross . The original meaning of the crosses in ...
... androcratic rule , the meaning of our most important symbols has often shifted radically through the impact of gylanic resurgence or androcratic regression . A striking example is the cross . The original meaning of the crosses in ...
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... androcratic conflict is still going on in our time . 29. Taylor , Sex in History , 126. The violent reimposition of androcratic controls has his- torically been particularly important in relation to any fundamental alteration in the ...
... androcratic conflict is still going on in our time . 29. Taylor , Sex in History , 126. The violent reimposition of androcratic controls has his- torically been particularly important in relation to any fundamental alteration in the ...
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