In Search of the Lost Feminine: Decoding the Myths that Radically Reshaped CivilizationHere, for the first time, an author weaves together threads that explain the mysterious disappearance of ancient cultures in which women and the environment were at the center, a loss that has dramatically influenced 3,500 years of Western history. |
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User Review - Not Available - Book VerdictLawyer Barnes (Growing Up True: Lessons from a Western Boyhood ) takes the reader on a historical journey from the Minoan era to modern times, describing how myths and institutions arose that led to ... Read full review
Contents
Minoan Artifacts Challenge the Inevitability of Patriarchy | 9 |
An Expectation of Rebirth or Immortality | 23 |
Time as a Circle Rather Than a Line | 33 |
The Troubling Question of War | 44 |
Crete and the Issue of Female Sexuality | 52 |
The Ecstatic and the Divine as Inseparable | 60 |
II | 67 |
The Diminishment of Daughters | 79 |
Odysseus Rejects Calypso | 124 |
Clytemnestra Is Sacrificed on the Altar of Marriage | 145 |
A Multitude of Myths to Tame Punish and Disparage Women | 161 |
A Glorious Monument Enshrining the Subordination of Women | 175 |
IV | 195 |
V | 231 |
Appendix | 247 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | In Search of the Lost Feminine: Decoding the Myths that Radically Reshaped Civilization |
| Author | Craig S. Barnes |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Fulcrum Publishing, 2006 |
| ISBN | 1555914896, 9781555914899 |
| Length | 286 pages |
| Subjects | › Social Science / Feminism & Feminist Theory Social Science / Folklore & Mythology Social Science / Women's Studies |
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