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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... example , out of 139 rooms excavated be- tween 1961 and 1963 , more than 40 appear to have served as shrines.20 This same pattern prevails in Neolithic and Chalcolithic Europe . In addition to all the shrines dedicated to various ...
... example , out of 139 rooms excavated be- tween 1961 and 1963 , more than 40 appear to have served as shrines.20 This same pattern prevails in Neolithic and Chalcolithic Europe . In addition to all the shrines dedicated to various ...
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... example in Hugh Downs's UNICEF Appeal Letter of January 1981 , in which he wrote that " in Ethiopia most of the five million victims of drought and civil war are mothers and children . " 31. See , e.g. , June Turner , ed . , Latin ...
... example in Hugh Downs's UNICEF Appeal Letter of January 1981 , in which he wrote that " in Ethiopia most of the five million victims of drought and civil war are mothers and children . " 31. See , e.g. , June Turner , ed . , Latin ...
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... example , E. O. Wilson illustrates " aggressive behavior ” as a " form of competitive technique " in evolution by citing ant colonies , which he describes as " notoriously aggressive toward one another . " See E. O. Wilson ...
... example , E. O. Wilson illustrates " aggressive behavior ” as a " form of competitive technique " in evolution by citing ant colonies , which he describes as " notoriously aggressive toward one another . " See E. O. Wilson ...
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