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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... important ways to this book : my daughters Andrea and Loren Eisler , my agent Ellen Levine , my editor Jan Johnson , as well as the many others at Harper & Row , including Clayton Carlson , Tom Dorsaneo , Mike Kehoe , Yvonne Keller ...
... important ways to this book : my daughters Andrea and Loren Eisler , my agent Ellen Levine , my editor Jan Johnson , as well as the many others at Harper & Row , including Clayton Carlson , Tom Dorsaneo , Mike Kehoe , Yvonne Keller ...
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... importance were the bull - sports , which probably took place in the central courts of palaces . Young men and women ... important to stress that Crete was not an ideal society or utopia but a real human society , complete with problems ...
... importance were the bull - sports , which probably took place in the central courts of palaces . Young men and women ... important to stress that Crete was not an ideal society or utopia but a real human society , complete with problems ...
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... important step in the move from a dominator to a partnership society . It also provided much of the impetus for new and more socially responsible political forms , such as constitutional monarchies and republics . Certainly capitalist ...
... important step in the move from a dominator to a partnership society . It also provided much of the impetus for new and more socially responsible political forms , such as constitutional monarchies and republics . Certainly capitalist ...
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