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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... plays a recurring part in the central miracle of pre - patriarchal religion , the mystery of regeneration and ... played an important role . The fusion of these two prin- ciples through the myths and rituals of the Sacred Marriage was in ...
... plays a recurring part in the central miracle of pre - patriarchal religion , the mystery of regeneration and ... played an important role . The fusion of these two prin- ciples through the myths and rituals of the Sacred Marriage was in ...
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... play , Agamemnon , the queen Clytemnestra acts to avenge the shedding of her daughter's blood . We learn that on his way to Troy her husband , Agamemnon , tricked her into sending him their daughter Iphigenia , purportedly to marry ...
... play , Agamemnon , the queen Clytemnestra acts to avenge the shedding of her daughter's blood . We learn that on his way to Troy her husband , Agamemnon , tricked her into sending him their daughter Iphigenia , purportedly to marry ...
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... plays like Aristo- phanes ' famous Lysistrata , in which the women threaten to withhold their sexual favors until the men cease their wars . That this theme was developed into an entire play by this extremely popular comic play- wright ...
... plays like Aristo- phanes ' famous Lysistrata , in which the women threaten to withhold their sexual favors until the men cease their wars . That this theme was developed into an entire play by this extremely popular comic play- wright ...
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