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  • The Chalice and the Blade

  • Our History, Our Future
  • By: Riane Eisler
  • Narrated by: Riane Eisler
  • Length: 2 hrs and 52 mins
  • 4.1 out of 5 stars (24 ratings)
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Summary

Riane Eisler believes that war and the "war of the sexes" are concepts neither divinely nor biologically ordained. Join the author as she reconstructs a prehistoric culture based on partnership rather than domination and traces the roots of the global shift to patriarchy. Eisler, an acclaimed scholar, futurist, and activist, also presents new scripts for living based on a more socially, economically, ecologically, personally, and spiritually balanced society. This script is in direct opposition to the tension and violence typical of what she calls the dominator model. Her vision is the partnership model, which today is struggling to reemerge. This program is an important contribution to that struggle.
©1987 Riane Eisler (P)1997 New World Library
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  • Categories: History
World Gender Studies
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"The most important book since Darwin's Origin of Species." (Ashley Montagu)
"Some books are like revelations, they open the spirit to unimaginable possibilities. [this] is one of those magnificent key books that can transform us." (Isabel Allende)

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Well worth listening to. Mind expanding.

The sound isn’t great but I recommend listening - the author helps shift the lenses on patriarchy, it’s myths and of course, how it’s bad news for all humanity, in an admirable clear prose.

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awful sound.

I really enjoyed the book but the recording quality is terrible. it sounds like someone sat at the other end of a room with a cassette recorder with a built in mic

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Poor audio quality

How can this pass quality? Please, this is not acceptable. I cannot follow the book at leisure.

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low quality audio. really low...

the history made up for the low quality audio but....this should not be the case... The narrator was also speaking sooooooooo sloooooow...i had to listen to the book at 1.5 speed

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