The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future

by Riane Eisler

Hardcover, 1987

Publication

Harpercollins (1987), Edition: 1st, Hardcover, 261 pages

Description

Family & Relationships. Sociology. Nonfiction. HTML: Now with an updated epilogue celebrating the 30th anniversary of this groundbreaking and increasingly relevent book. "May be the most significant work published in all our lifetimes." �?? LA Weekly The Chalice and the Blade tells a new story of our cultural origins. It shows that warfare and the war of the sexes are neither divinely nor biologically ordained. It provides verification that a better future is possible�??and is in fact firmly rooted in the haunting dramas of what happened in our past

Media reviews

An ambitious new synthesis....[Eisler's] rigorous research... traces the unseen forces that shape human culture.
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Sunday San Francisco Examiner & Chronicle
Validates a belief in humanity's capacity for benevolence and cooperation in the face of so much... destruction. Eisler has brought the scope of feminist scholarship out of the ghetto.
New Age Journal
The greatest murder mystery and cover-up of all time

Language

Physical description

261 p.; 9.4 inches

ISBN

0062502875 / 9780062502872
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