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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... period , controlled by the Indo - European Achaeans , Cretan art becomes less spontaneous and free . And now clearly visible in the Cretan archaeological record is a much greater concern with , and emphasis on , death . " Before they ...
... period , controlled by the Indo - European Achaeans , Cretan art becomes less spontaneous and free . And now clearly visible in the Cretan archaeological record is a much greater concern with , and emphasis on , death . " Before they ...
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... period in southern France as a medieval example of a matrist period — or , in our terms , a period of gylanic re- surgence . This was a time when out of the twelfth - century courts of Eleanor of Aquitaine and her daughters Marie and ...
... period in southern France as a medieval example of a matrist period — or , in our terms , a period of gylanic re- surgence . This was a time when out of the twelfth - century courts of Eleanor of Aquitaine and her daughters Marie and ...
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... period do we find any fundamental alteration of women's subservience to men . What we see instead are more " feminine " humanistic values struggling to the fore during both the feudal troubadour and the Italian Renaissance periods . We ...
... period do we find any fundamental alteration of women's subservience to men . What we see instead are more " feminine " humanistic values struggling to the fore during both the feudal troubadour and the Italian Renaissance periods . We ...
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