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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... question of whether these women were really merely " consorts " under the rule and dominance of men . This question is also raised if we take a close look at the text of the so - called Urukagina reforms of Sumeria , dated circa 2300 ...
... question of whether these women were really merely " consorts " under the rule and dominance of men . This question is also raised if we take a close look at the text of the so - called Urukagina reforms of Sumeria , dated circa 2300 ...
Page 79
... question of why this case , claimed to be the very first ever tried by a Greek court of homicide , is the killing of a mother by her own son . Nor does it address the central question of how , in what is supposedly a " moral lesson " in ...
... question of why this case , claimed to be the very first ever tried by a Greek court of homicide , is the killing of a mother by her own son . Nor does it address the central question of how , in what is supposedly a " moral lesson " in ...
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... question of how systems break down in periods of extreme disequilibrium and are replaced by differ- ent systems is being studied by scientists.16 Of particular interest in relation to the question of how one social system can replace ...
... question of how systems break down in periods of extreme disequilibrium and are replaced by differ- ent systems is being studied by scientists.16 Of particular interest in relation to the question of how one social system can replace ...
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