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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... recorded in misogynistic satires by men like Aristophanes and Cratinus about women who meet in groups and talk in unseemly ways indi- cating their " wanting to be like men . " It is indeed likely that women who met regularly and ...
... recorded in misogynistic satires by men like Aristophanes and Cratinus about women who meet in groups and talk in unseemly ways indi- cating their " wanting to be like men . " It is indeed likely that women who met regularly and ...
Page 188
... recorded history using female sexual imagery in ways that are strikingly reminiscent of Paleolithic , Neolithic , and Cretan symbolisms of birth , rebirth , and transformation . 13 Also for the first time in recorded history , images ...
... recorded history using female sexual imagery in ways that are strikingly reminiscent of Paleolithic , Neolithic , and Cretan symbolisms of birth , rebirth , and transformation . 13 Also for the first time in recorded history , images ...
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... recorded history seen major technological transformations . But within the perspective of the cultural transformation theory we are developing , it can be seen that what have often been described as major cultural transformations — for ...
... recorded history seen major technological transformations . But within the perspective of the cultural transformation theory we are developing , it can be seen that what have often been described as major cultural transformations — for ...
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