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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... followed above all . The ancient Greek poet Hesiod wrote of a " golden race " who tilled the soil in " peaceful ease " before a " lesser race " brought in their god of war . But though scholars agree that in many respects these works ...
... followed above all . The ancient Greek poet Hesiod wrote of a " golden race " who tilled the soil in " peaceful ease " before a " lesser race " brought in their god of war . But though scholars agree that in many respects these works ...
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... followed the mainland pattern . During the Mycenaean period , controlled by the Indo - European Achaeans , Cretan art becomes less spontaneous and free . And now clearly visible in the Cretan archaeological record is a much greater ...
... followed the mainland pattern . During the Mycenaean period , controlled by the Indo - European Achaeans , Cretan art becomes less spontaneous and free . And now clearly visible in the Cretan archaeological record is a much greater ...
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... followed by the men most despised by Hesiod , the Dorians , who laid waste to Greece with their weapons of iron . One could say that if Freud and Jung were right , and there is such a thing as a genetically transmitted race memory , it ...
... followed by the men most despised by Hesiod , the Dorians , who laid waste to Greece with their weapons of iron . One could say that if Freud and Jung were right , and there is such a thing as a genetically transmitted race memory , it ...
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