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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... merely mortal - clearly , like her earthly counterparts , of an inferior order . Religions in which the most powerful or only deity is male tend to reflect a social order in which descent is patrilinear ( traced through the father ) and ...
... merely mortal - clearly , like her earthly counterparts , of an inferior order . Religions in which the most powerful or only deity is male tend to reflect a social order in which descent is patrilinear ( traced through the father ) and ...
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... merely the wife or consort of male deities , who with their new symbolizations of power as destructive weapons or thunderbolts are now supreme . In sum , through the gradual process of both social and ideological trans- formation we ...
... merely the wife or consort of male deities , who with their new symbolizations of power as destructive weapons or thunderbolts are now supreme . In sum , through the gradual process of both social and ideological trans- formation we ...
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... merely incom- plete . The Challenge to the Androcratic Premises The ideas that came out of the eighteenth - century Enlightenment are in fact only partly new . Rooted in the deep past we examined in our first chapters , they are gylanic ...
... merely incom- plete . The Challenge to the Androcratic Premises The ideas that came out of the eighteenth - century Enlightenment are in fact only partly new . Rooted in the deep past we examined in our first chapters , they are gylanic ...
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