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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... movement from lower to higher levels . In actual fact , not even our technological evolution has been a linear movement from lower to higher levels , but rather a process punctuated by massive regressions , such as the Greek Dark Age ...
... movement from lower to higher levels . In actual fact , not even our technological evolution has been a linear movement from lower to higher levels , but rather a process punctuated by massive regressions , such as the Greek Dark Age ...
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... movement . This is bitingly recorded in misogynistic satires by men like Aristophanes and Cratinus about women who ... movement for peace , much in tune with the peace movement in our own time , is recorded most tellingly for us in ...
... movement . This is bitingly recorded in misogynistic satires by men like Aristophanes and Cratinus about women who ... movement for peace , much in tune with the peace movement in our own time , is recorded most tellingly for us in ...
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... movement ; oscillation , or cyclic movement ; and systems transformation at critical " bifurcation points , " when , as Pri- gogine and Stengers write , " the system can ' choose ' between or among more than one possible future . " 2 ...
... movement ; oscillation , or cyclic movement ; and systems transformation at critical " bifurcation points , " when , as Pri- gogine and Stengers write , " the system can ' choose ' between or among more than one possible future . " 2 ...
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