In search of the lost feminine : decoding the myths that radically reshaped civilization /

Here, for the first time, threads of truth explaining the mysterious disappearance of ancient cultures-in which women and the environment were at the center-have been woven together to illustrate this loss which has dramatically influenced 3,500 years of western history. The ancient world had not on...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Barnes, Craig S. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Golden, Colo. : Fulcrum, ©2006.
Temas:
Sex role > History.
Patriarchy > History.
Minoans.
Mythology, Greek.
Rôle selon le sexe > Histoire.
Patriarcat (Sociologie) > Histoire.
Minoens.
Mythologie grecque.
Minoans
Mythology, Greek
Patriarchy
Sex role
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : rewriting the story of western civilization
  • Minoan artifacts challenge the inevitability of patriarchy
  • The mystery of Minoan civilization
  • An expectation of rebirth or immortality
  • Time as a circle rather than a line
  • The troubling question of war
  • Crete and the issue of female sexuality
  • The ecstatic and the divine as inseperable
  • Five values dramatically at odds with patriarchy
  • The collapse of the Minoan world
  • The invasions of 1600 BCE : a war culture emerges
  • The Theran explosion : the loss of faith in Mother Earth
  • The growth of trade : the diminishment of daughters
  • The great civil war over marriage : the end of women-centered culture in the eastern Mediterranean
  • A warrior civilization emerges
  • Four hundred years of chaos sets the stage
  • Values shaped by storytellers
  • An exaggerated feminine is made monstrous
  • Mother Earth is overthrown
  • Jason resists the many shapes of seductive women
  • Odysseus rejects Calypso
  • Homer poses the choice between love and property
  • Clytemnestra is sacrificed on the altar of marriage
  • Marriage destroys the mother-daughter bond
  • Daughters die for civic good
  • A multitude of myths to tame, punish, and disparage women
  • Oedipus, the lost son
  • A glorious monument enshrining the subordination of women
  • Biblical patriarchs match the Greek story
  • Objections to the warrior civilization
  • Jesus carries forward the Eleusian symbolism of grain and wine
  • Jesus takes on the threat of military destruction
  • Ancient beliefs spring up among the Celts
  • A short-lived Islamic challenge
  • The metaphor of the holy grail
  • Devil talk and witch burnings
  • Closing the book on the patriarchy
  • History as a choice of stories
  • Women coming home to dignity
  • The declining utility of war
  • Another story all along.

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