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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... machine , the armed man on a horse - which in its time must have had the impact a tank or an airplane has among primitives in ours . And in the wake of the Kurgan devastation , we find their typical warrior - chieftain graves , with ...
... machine , the armed man on a horse - which in its time must have had the impact a tank or an airplane has among primitives in ours . And in the wake of the Kurgan devastation , we find their typical warrior - chieftain graves , with ...
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Our History, Our Future Riane Tennenhaus Eisler. structure of the machine or of the organism is an index of the performance that may be expected from it . . . . It is as completely natural for a human society to be based on learning as ...
Our History, Our Future Riane Tennenhaus Eisler. structure of the machine or of the organism is an index of the performance that may be expected from it . . . . It is as completely natural for a human society to be based on learning as ...
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... Machine : Technics and Human Development ( New York : Harcourt , Brace & World , 1966 ) . 41. The analysis of the androcratic character of Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia will be developed in Riane Eisler and David Loye , Breaking ...
... Machine : Technics and Human Development ( New York : Harcourt , Brace & World , 1966 ) . 41. The analysis of the androcratic character of Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia will be developed in Riane Eisler and David Loye , Breaking ...
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