It is so interesting to read this, originally written in 1987, over 30 years ago, in the context of our reality today. Showing that our mounting global problems are in large part the logical consequences of a dominator model of social organisation and that there is another course which, as co-creators of our own future experience, is still ours to choose.įrom the paleolithic, the neolithic, Old Europe, Goddess worship and the unique long lasting civilization of Crete to the invaders, the colonizers, warfare, slavery and sacrifice, we see the world and our reality through a different lens and yet once you've seen it, you recognize it, without realizing how it acts on us, in our homes, our workplaces, ours schools, institutions, governments. The chapters explore the roots of.how the original partnership direction of Western culture veered off into a bloody 5,000 year dominator detour She reevaluates the past and present, sharing research that has been ignored or misinterpreted to show: Hence the title The Chalice (the life-generating and nurturing powers of the universe - in our time symbolized by the ancient chalice or grail) and the Blade the power to take rather than give life that is the ultimate power to establish and enforce domination. The original direction in the mainstream of our cultural evolution was toward partnership but that, following a period of chaos and almost total cultural disruption, there occurred a fundamental shift. the partnership model based on the principle of linking, affiliation and cooperation the dominator model (popularly referred to as patriarchy or matriarchy) - the ranking of one half of humanity over another and These and other questions lead her to re-examine the past, present and future, captured here in The Chalice and the Blade, looking at human history and pre-history and at both male and female aspects of humanity and in particular, those societies where the feminine aspect was revered.
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Why do we hunt and persecute each other? Why is our world so full of man's infamous inhumanity to man - and woman? How can humans be so brutal to their own kind? What is it that chronically tilts us toward cruelty rather than kindness, toward war rather than peace, toward destruction rather than actualization? I also very early developed a passionate concern about the human situation. Very early in my life I saw that what people in different cultures consider given - just the way things are - is not the same everywhere.
Eisler, a futurist, posits a new society based on the recovery of more humane values.Riane Eisler was born in Vienna, Austria and with her family fled for their lives, first to Cuba and finally to the United States, experiencing three different cultures, each with their own version of truth and reality. "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.
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Publication date 1987 Topics Vrouwenbeweging, social status, sociologie, sociology, positie van de vrouw, history, rollen (functie), roles, sociale status, woman's status, vrouwen, women's movement, Women's Movement, Social evolution - History, Sex role - History, Social history, Patriarchy - History, patriarchátus - történet, nemi szerep - történet, Sex role, Patriarchy, Social evolution, vrouwenbeweging, woman and society, Sociale evolutie, Sekseverschillen, Rôle selon le sexe - Histoire, Évolution sociale, Matriarcat - Histoire, Patriarches et patriarcat - Histoire, Social conditions, Social change - History, geschiedenis, Sex roles Theories, history, vrouwenemancipatie, women, vrouw en samenleving, feminism, feminisme, female equality, gelijke behandeling van de vrouw, emancipation of women Publisher Cambridge : Harper & Row Collection inlibrary printdisabled internetarchivebooks Digitizing sponsor Kahle/Austin Foundation Contributor Internet Archive Language English
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