Riane Eisler
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| Original Title: | The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future |
| ISBN: | 0062502891 (ISBN13: 9780062502896) |
| Edition Language: | English |
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The legacy of the sacred feminine.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.
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| Title | : | The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future (Updated With a New Epilogue) |
| Author | : | Riane Eisler |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 304 pages |
| Published | : | September 21st 1988 by HarperOne (first published 1987) |
| Categories | : | History. Nonfiction. Feminism. Religion. Anthropology. Womens |
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Ratings: 4.14 From 2966 Users | 248 ReviewsNotice Appertaining To Books The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future (Updated With a New Epilogue)
Until reading this book, I thought the arguments that early human cultures were peaceful egalitarian Goddess worshipers was about as strong as the arguments that early human beings were brutish war-mongering death-worshipers. Both directions seemed to be speculative wishful thinking based on very limited weak evidence. But this book provides a great overview of recent archeological finds and corrections of earlier literature that didn't have the benefits of carbon dating. It is quite convincingThree stars because it was a pretty interesting read, and she covers, well, all of human history.I read it because I know a number of people who claim this book fundamentally shaped their worldview (and a number of others who don't make that claim, but are certainly influenced by the popularity of Eisler's ideas).The first half is in large part a summary and popularizing of the work of archaeologist Marija Gimbutas, who argues that before the spread of Indo-European civilization there existed a
Loved this book. Helps clarify how we got where we are, and where we can go if we want to. Those who brush this off as feminazi aren't reading well. She reiterates many times that there are gentle men and less-than-gentle women. Nor does she say that the Neolithic matrifocal societies were uptopias with no problems, just that they focused on nurturing rather than destruction. Her ideas about a gylanic society based on linking rather than ranking are excellent and should be pursued.
This book and its sequel, Sacred Pleasure, really need to be read back to back, because it shows how society can be changed by the stories we tell ourselves and each other and how power can be usurped based on untruts about the feminine, and that within the masculine. They have been the foundation pieces of partnership work done in Sustainable Ballard. A good solid study of how we became the way we are.
My personal change agent. I read this book at a juncture in my life when many things were changing. I have read Chalice more than 5 times, have been in book studies on it and led them as well. In nearly every case women who have not encountered information like this before have often profound experiences with waking up. My copy is dog-eared, underlined, commented in and loved dearly for what it has brought me and other women I love.
WHY DID YOU READ THIS BOOK?This one has been on my TBR shelf for twenty years, so I figured it was time to read it. Of course, having come of age at the tail end of the second wave of feminism, Im not unfamiliar with the content; nevertheless, I wanted to brush up on the subject for a work of fiction Im writing.WHAT DID YOU LIKE ABOUT THIS BOOK?I think Riane Eisler is a very good writer, and HarperCollins editors are excellent too. The writing in this book is clean and tight and erudite, just
I guess it's a sign of how well these ideas have been disseminated since this book was published that I found nothing all that new to me here. (Or maybe it's just because I live in Northern California...)But it's always welcome to hear evidence that human history hasn't just been a straight line of organized violence from the African savannah to Pax Americana.
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