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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... labor on provisions for the royal and noble dead . And , most tell- ingly , due partly to the Achaean influence and partly to the mounting threat of another wave of invasions from the European continent , there are clear signs of a ...
... labor on provisions for the royal and noble dead . And , most tell- ingly , due partly to the Achaean influence and partly to the mounting threat of another wave of invasions from the European continent , there are clear signs of a ...
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Our History, Our Future Riane Tennenhaus Eisler. who bestowed labor on us , " we read . " Salute Andronicus and Junia , my kin and my fellow prisoners , who are of note among the apostles , who also were in Christ before me " ( emphasis ...
Our History, Our Future Riane Tennenhaus Eisler. who bestowed labor on us , " we read . " Salute Andronicus and Junia , my kin and my fellow prisoners , who are of note among the apostles , who also were in Christ before me " ( emphasis ...
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... Labor in Society ( Glencoe , IL : The Free Press , 1933 ) , for an influential work that posited a two- stage social evolution progressing from the small and less specialized society to the larger and more specialized one in a scheme ...
... Labor in Society ( Glencoe , IL : The Free Press , 1933 ) , for an influential work that posited a two- stage social evolution progressing from the small and less specialized society to the larger and more specialized one in a scheme ...
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