![]() ![]() The Chalice and the Blade has been translated into more than twenty-two languages and has sold over 500.000 copies worldwide. 0 Ratings 13 Want to read 0 Currently reading 1 Have read Borrow Listen. ![]() The chalice and the blade our history, our future 1st Harper & Row paperback ed. Riane Eisler believes that war and the war of the sexes are concepts neither divinely nor biologically ordained. By demonstrating that war between men and between the sexes is not divinely or biologically determined, and that the male/androcratic model is not the only social and cultural option available to us, the author searches the past, including the archaeological one, for the tools to build a better future and a new type of civilization that can resist fundamentalism and barbarism for a fair and peaceful coexistence of ethnic groups and genders. The chalice and the blade by Riane Tennenhaus Eisler, 1988, Perennial Library edition, in English. First published in 1988, Riane Eislers The Chalice and the Blade re-examines our societal cultural origins from a gender-holistic perspective. ![]() Riane Eisler offers us a new theory of cultural evolution based on two models: the androcratic, violent and authoritarian one (symbolized by the sword) and the mutual and gylanic one (the chalice), based on the collaboration between the sexes, also considered of equal importance if with different roles. ![]()
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