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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... nature - and of woman - are recurrent themes . Thales , who according to Aristotle was the pioneer of " natural " philosophy , is reported by Aristotle to have held that water was the origin of all things . This view is again strikingly ...
... nature - and of woman - are recurrent themes . Thales , who according to Aristotle was the pioneer of " natural " philosophy , is reported by Aristotle to have held that water was the origin of all things . This view is again strikingly ...
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... natural environment . 14 Often unconsciously , the process of unraveling and reweaving the fabric of our mythical tapestry into more gylanic patterns - in which " masculine " virtues such as " the conquest of nature " are no longer ...
... natural environment . 14 Often unconsciously , the process of unraveling and reweaving the fabric of our mythical tapestry into more gylanic patterns - in which " masculine " virtues such as " the conquest of nature " are no longer ...
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... Natural Sciences , " it will no longer be a science " directed toward the domination of nature or of humanity as part of nature . " 39 40 Evelyn Fox Keller , Carol Christ , Rita Arditti , and other scholars point out how , under the ...
... Natural Sciences , " it will no longer be a science " directed toward the domination of nature or of humanity as part of nature . " 39 40 Evelyn Fox Keller , Carol Christ , Rita Arditti , and other scholars point out how , under the ...
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