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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... evidence suggests an equali- tarian and clearly non - patriarchal society . The same can be adduced of the Varna society : I can see there no ranking along a patriarchal mas- culine - feminine value scale . " 31 In sum , here , as in ...
... evidence suggests an equali- tarian and clearly non - patriarchal society . The same can be adduced of the Varna society : I can see there no ranking along a patriarchal mas- culine - feminine value scale . " 31 In sum , here , as in ...
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... evidence that for mil- lennia of human history the supreme deity had been female , a number of nineteenth- and early twentieth - century scholars came to a seem- ingly earthshaking conclusion . If prehistory was not patriarchal , it ...
... evidence that for mil- lennia of human history the supreme deity had been female , a number of nineteenth- and early twentieth - century scholars came to a seem- ingly earthshaking conclusion . If prehistory was not patriarchal , it ...
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... evidence that in about 1450 B.C.E. there was in the Mediterranean a series of volcanic eruptions of such severity that they caused part of the island of Thera ( now a tiny strip of land sometimes called Santorini ) to collapse into the ...
... evidence that in about 1450 B.C.E. there was in the Mediterranean a series of volcanic eruptions of such severity that they caused part of the island of Thera ( now a tiny strip of land sometimes called Santorini ) to collapse into the ...
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