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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... seems to have both reflected and reinforced a social order in which , to quote Nicolas Platon , " the fear of death ... seems to have been here a rather equitable sharing of wealth . " The standard of living - even of peasants - seems to ...
... seems to have both reflected and reinforced a social order in which , to quote Nicolas Platon , " the fear of death ... seems to have been here a rather equitable sharing of wealth . " The standard of living - even of peasants - seems to ...
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... seem the basis for folk memories of the sunken land mass Plato called Atlantis , is also verified by archaeological ... seems that the story of Atlantis is actually the garbled folk mem- ory , not of a lost Atlantic continent , but of ...
... seem the basis for folk memories of the sunken land mass Plato called Atlantis , is also verified by archaeological ... seems that the story of Atlantis is actually the garbled folk mem- ory , not of a lost Atlantic continent , but of ...
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... seems to have stressed the worship of the feminine principle.28 And Diogenes tells us that women studied in the Pythagorean school along with men , as they did later in Plato's Academy.29 It is also significant that much of Platonic ...
... seems to have stressed the worship of the feminine principle.28 And Diogenes tells us that women studied in the Pythagorean school along with men , as they did later in Plato's Academy.29 It is also significant that much of Platonic ...
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