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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... feminist scholarship that we begin to see the reason behind something the French philosopher Charles Fourier observed over a century ago : the degree of emancipation of women is an index of the degree of a society's emancipation . " The ...
... feminist scholarship that we begin to see the reason behind something the French philosopher Charles Fourier observed over a century ago : the degree of emancipation of women is an index of the degree of a society's emancipation . " The ...
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... feminist scholars . However , it is such a bur- geoning list that many have of necessity not been mentioned . 22. Spender , Feminist Theorists . Feminism as a modern phenomenon dates to the eigh- teenth century . But there are much ...
... feminist scholars . However , it is such a bur- geoning list that many have of necessity not been mentioned . 22. Spender , Feminist Theorists . Feminism as a modern phenomenon dates to the eigh- teenth century . But there are much ...
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... feminist scholars . Though some of them sought to reconcile the Bible with feminist aspira- tions , Elizabeth Cady Stanton , who is probably the most remarkable of the nine- teenth - century feminists , went directly to the heart of the ...
... feminist scholars . Though some of them sought to reconcile the Bible with feminist aspira- tions , Elizabeth Cady Stanton , who is probably the most remarkable of the nine- teenth - century feminists , went directly to the heart of the ...
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