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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... partnership model , with variations in between . Moreover , if we reexamine human society from a perspective that takes into account both women and men , we can also see that there are pat- terns , or systems configurations , that ...
... partnership model , with variations in between . Moreover , if we reexamine human society from a perspective that takes into account both women and men , we can also see that there are pat- terns , or systems configurations , that ...
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... partnership model with the dom- inator model . And war and other forms of social violence continued to play a central role in diverting our cultural evolution from a partnership to a dominator direction . As we will see , the shift from ...
... partnership model with the dom- inator model . And war and other forms of social violence continued to play a central role in diverting our cultural evolution from a partnership to a dominator direction . As we will see , the shift from ...
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... partnership societies technological advances were used primarily to make life more pleasurable rather than to dominate and destroy . This leads back to the fundamental distinction between the cultural evolution of dominator and partnership ...
... partnership societies technological advances were used primarily to make life more pleasurable rather than to dominate and destroy . This leads back to the fundamental distinction between the cultural evolution of dominator and partnership ...
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