| Edition |
1st HarperCollins pbk. ed. |
| Description |
xxiii, 261 pages : maps ; 24 cm |
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text txt rdacontent |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Note |
"A catalyst book of the General Evolution Research Group and the Center for Partnership Studies"--Title page verso. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-239) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: The chalice and the blade : Human possibilities: two alternatives ; The evolutionary crossroads ; Chaos or transformation -- 1. Journey into a lost world: the beginnings of civilization : The Paleolithic ; The Neolithic ; Old Europe -- 2. Messages from the past: the world of the goddess : Neolithic art ; The worship of the goddess ; If it isn't patriarchy it must be matriarchy -- 3. The essential difference: Crete : The archeological bombshell ; The love of life and nature ; A unique civilization ; The invisibility of the obvious -- 4. Dark order out of chaos: from the chalice to the blade : The peripheral invaders ; Metallurgy and male supremacy ; The shift in cultural evolution ; Warfare, slavery, and sacrifice ; The truncation of civilization ; The destruction of Crete ; A disintegrating world -- 5. Memories of a lost age: the legacy of the goddess : Evolution and transformation ; A golden race and the legend of Atlantis ; The Garden of Eden and the tablets of Sumer ; The gifts of civilization ; A new view of the past -- 6. Reality stood on its head: part I : Mother-murder is not a crime ; The dominator and partnership mind ; The metamorphosis of myth -- 7. Reality stood on its head: part II : The rerouting of civilization ; The absence of the goddess ; Sex and economics ; Dominator morality ; Knowledge is bad, birth is dirty, death is holy -- 8. The other half of history: part I : Our hidden heritage ; The cyclic unity of nature and the harmony of the spheres ; Ancient Greece ; Androcratic right and wrong -- 9. The other half of history: part II : Jesus and gylany ; The suppressed scriptures ; The gylanic heresies ; The pendulum swings back -- 10. The patterns of the past: gylany and history : The feminine as a force in history ; History repeats itself ; Women as a force in history ; The female ethos ; The end of the line -- 11. Breaking free: the unfinished transformation : The failure of reason ; The challenge to the androcratic premises ; The secular ideologies ; The dominator model of human relations ; Forward or back? -- 12. The breakdown of evolution: a dominator future : The insoluble problems ; Human issues and women's issues ; The totalitarian solution ; New realities and old myths -- 13. Breakthough in evolution: toward a partnership future : A new view of reality ; A new science and spirituality ; A new politics and economics ; Transformation. |
| Summary |
"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). |
| Subject |
Sex role -- History.
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Social evolution -- History.
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Patriarchy -- History.
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Social history.
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Patriarchy (OCoLC)fst01055082
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Sex role (OCoLC)fst01114598
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Social evolution (OCoLC)fst01122456
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Social history (OCoLC)fst01122498
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| Genre/Form |
History (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Cover Title |
Chalice & the blade |
| ISBN |
0062502891 |
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9780062502896 |
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0062502875 |
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9780062502872 |
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