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Matriarchy and the Goddess Culture

Author : R. K. Fisher
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781981356683
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (566 download)

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Book Synopsis Matriarchy and the Goddess Culture by : R. K. Fisher

Download or read book Matriarchy and the Goddess Culture written by R. K. Fisher and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-12-02 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happened when women ruled the world? There are many questions about the Old Culture - a culture even before history was written. Whatever happened to the Great Goddess? When did patriarchy start? How did women become objectified? This book is about the Journey of ancient women with their many glories and challenges. It talks about the gender partitioning which still survived in some cultures today, women as warriors, advisers, goddesses and properties. Chapters included are: -The Goddess Paradigm -Women Warrior -Dethroning the Queen of Heaven -The Queen in Exile Written with a Mathematician's precision and a Historian's curiosity, Time Maps covers over millennia worth of developments & impacts of civilizations, migrations, leaders and continents. Illuminating concepts of societies, dynasties, heroes, kings and eras through incisive and thorough research, looking at ideas, theories & world views with a sense of wonder and delight.

The Myth of Matriarchal Prehistory

Author : Cynthia Eller
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807067932
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (679 download)

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Download or read book The Myth of Matriarchal Prehistory written by Cynthia Eller and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2001-04-13 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to the myth of matriarchal prehistory, men and women lived together peacefully before recorded history. Society was centered around women, with their mysterious life-giving powers, and they were honored as incarnations and priestesses of the Great Goddess. Then a transformation occurred, and men thereafter dominated society. Given the universality of patriarchy in recorded history, this vision is understandably appealing for many women. But does it have any basis in fact? And as a myth, does it work for the good of women? Cynthia Eller traces the emergence of the feminist matriarchal myth, explicates its functions, and examines the evidence for and against a matriarchal prehistory. Finally, she explains why this vision of peaceful, woman-centered prehistory is something feminists should be wary of.

Goddesses and the Divine Feminine

Author : Rosemary Ruether
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520250055
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Goddesses and the Divine Feminine written by Rosemary Ruether and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2006-11-20 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The scholarship in this book is superior, revealing a depth of insight and a scope of knowledge possible only from a scholar who has lived with the concerns of feminist theology for decades. Ruether is a gifted storyteller, and lucidly translates complex ideas and debates. This work is of the highest importance, and Ruether asks the right questions at the right time. The text is groundbreaking."—Nancy Pineda-Madrid, Saint Mary's College of California "Ruether has provided a valuable introduction to an important feminist topic: what can we know about sacred female imagery in Western culture? She guides us through contemporary feminist scholarship, providing engaging narrative, and venturing her own interpretations. Ruether calls for feminists to move beyond divisions created by our different interpretations of prehistory and work together towards our common project of a more peaceful, just, and ecological world."—Carol Hepokoski, Meadville Lombard Theological School

Goddesses and the Divine Feminine

Author : Rosemary Ruether
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520250052
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Goddesses and the Divine Feminine written by Rosemary Ruether and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2006-11-20 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The scholarship in this book is superior, revealing a depth of insight and a scope of knowledge possible only from a scholar who has lived with the concerns of feminist theology for decades. Ruether is a gifted storyteller, and lucidly translates complex ideas and debates. This work is of the highest importance, and Ruether asks the right questions at the right time. The text is groundbreaking."—Nancy Pineda-Madrid, Saint Mary's College of California "Ruether has provided a valuable introduction to an important feminist topic: what can we know about sacred female imagery in Western culture? She guides us through contemporary feminist scholarship, providing engaging narrative, and venturing her own interpretations. Ruether calls for feminists to move beyond divisions created by our different interpretations of prehistory and work together towards our common project of a more peaceful, just, and ecological world."—Carol Hepokoski, Meadville Lombard Theological School

The Goddess Myth in Contemporary Literature and Popular Culture

Author : Mary J. Magoulick
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1496837096
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (968 download)

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Download or read book The Goddess Myth in Contemporary Literature and Popular Culture written by Mary J. Magoulick and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2022-02-15 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Goddess characters are revered as feminist heroes in the popular media of many cultures. However, these goddess characters often prove to be less promising and more regressive than most people initially perceive. Goddesses in film, television, and fiction project worldviews and messages that reflect mostly patriarchal culture (included essentialized gender assumptions), in contrast to the feminist, empowering levels many fans and critics observe. Building on critiques of other skeptical scholars, this feminist, folkloristic approach deepens how our remythologizing of the ancient past reflects a contemporary worldview and rhetoric. Structures of contemporary goddess myths often fit typical extremes as either vilified, destructive, dark, and chaotic (typical in film or television); or romanticized, positive, even utopian (typical in women’s speculative fiction). This goddess spectrum persistently essentializes gender, stereotyping women as emotional, intuitive, sexual, motherly beings (good or bad), precluded from complex potential and fuller natures. Within apparent good-over-evil, pop-culture narrative frames, these goddesses all suffer significantly. However, a few recent intersectional writers, like N. K. Jemisin, break through these dark reflections of contemporary power dynamics to offer complex characters who evince “hopepunk.” They resist typical simplified, reductionist absolutes to offer messages that resonate with potential for today’s world. Mythic narratives featuring goddesses often do, but need not, serve merely as ideological mirrors of our culture’s still problematically reductionist approach to women and all humanity.

Matriarchal Societies

Author : Heide Göttner-Abendroth
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781433125126
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (251 download)

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Download or read book Matriarchal Societies written by Heide Göttner-Abendroth and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 2013-09-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the results of Heide Goettner-Abendroth's pioneering research in the field of modern matriarchal studies, based on a new definition of «matriarchy» as true gender-egalitarian societies. This new perspective on matriarchal societies is developed step by step by the analysis of extant indigenous cultures in Asia, Africa, and the Americas.

Dancing Goddess

Author : Heide Gottner-Abendro
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807067536
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (675 download)

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Download or read book Dancing Goddess written by Heide Gottner-Abendro and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 1991-11-30 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blending theory, criticism, and ritual, reveals the foundations of the ancient tradition of "matriarchal art," and shows how that tradition flourishes in the works of major contemporary women artists and in contemporary women's spirituality.

Matriarchy in Bronze Age Crete

Author : Joan M. Cichon
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1803270454
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)

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Book Synopsis Matriarchy in Bronze Age Crete by : Joan M. Cichon

Download or read book Matriarchy in Bronze Age Crete written by Joan M. Cichon and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2022-06-30 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book makes a compelling case for a matriarchal Bronze Age Crete. It is acknowledged that the preeminent deity was a Female Divine, and that women played a major role in Cretan society, but there is a lively, ongoing debate regarding the centrality of women in Bronze Age Crete. a gap in the scholarly literature which this book seeks to fill.

When God Was A Woman

Author : Merlin Stone
Publisher : Doubleday
ISBN 13 : 0307816850
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book When God Was A Woman written by Merlin Stone and published by Doubleday. This book was released on 2012-05-09 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here, archaeologically documented,is the story of the religion of the Goddess. Under her, women’s roles were far more prominent than in patriarchal Judeo-Christian cultures. Stone describes this ancient system and, with its disintegration, the decline in women’s status.

Gentlemen and Amazons

Author : Cynthia Eller
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520948556
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Gentlemen and Amazons written by Cynthia Eller and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2011-03-08 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gentlemen and Amazons traces the nineteenth-century genesis and development of an important contemporary myth about human origins: that of an original prehistoric matriarchy. Cynthia Eller explores the intellectual history of the myth, which arose from male scholars who mostly wanted to vindicate the patriarchal family model as a higher stage of human development. Eller tells the stories these men told, analyzes the gendered assumptions they made, and provides the necessary context for understanding how feminists of the 1970s and 1980s embraced as historical "fact" a discredited nineteenth-century idea.

The Language of the Goddess

Author : Marija Gimbutas
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Language of the Goddess written by Marija Gimbutas and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1991 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this book is to present the pictorial 'script' for the religion of the Old European Great Goddess, consisting of signs, symbols, and images of divinities. These are our primary sources for reconstructing this prehistoric scene and are vital to any true understanding of Western religion and mythology.

Introducing Thealogy

Author : Melissa Raphael
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9781850759751
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (597 download)

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Download or read book Introducing Thealogy written by Melissa Raphael and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1998-12-31 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are a number of participant accounts of the revival of Goddess religion among feminists in Europe, America and Australasia. But students and others interested in issues in the relation of religion, theo/alogy and gender need an accessible and concise critical overview of this contemporary religious phenomenon and its discourses. Introducing Thealogy, which offers a contextual analysis of the thealogy, ontology, historiography and ethics of various types of Goddess feminism, is designed to meet that need.

Am I a Woman?

Author : Cynthia Eller
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807075098
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book Am I a Woman? written by Cynthia Eller and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2004-08-01 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this smart, intimate, and conversational book, Cynthia Eller delves into the twin thickets of gender theory and everyday experience to ask how we decide who is a woman-and why we find the answer important. Is a woman defined by her anatomy? Does she perceive the world differently than men? Is it her behavior that somehow marks her as inescapably female? Or is it a matter of how others evaluate her? Eller's answers demonstrate that the question is far more complicated, and its effects more pernicious, than it might at first appear.

Matriarchs, Goddesses, and Images of God

Author : Susanne Heine
Publisher : Augsburg Fortress Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Matriarchs, Goddesses, and Images of God written by Susanne Heine and published by Augsburg Fortress Publishing. This book was released on 1989 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Goddess Durga and Sacred Female Power

Author : Laura Amazzone
Publisher : University Press of America
ISBN 13 : 0761853138
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (618 download)

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Download or read book Goddess Durga and Sacred Female Power written by Laura Amazzone and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2010 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Amazzone's voice is strong and clear. Goddess Durga promises the transformation, empowerment, and dignity that is our birthright."--Marisa Tomei, Academy Award-winning actor.

Re-Inventing Africa

Author : Ifi Amadiume
Publisher : Zed Books
ISBN 13 : 9781856495349
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book Re-Inventing Africa written by Ifi Amadiume and published by Zed Books. This book was released on 1997-12 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reveals how conventional anthropology has consistently imposed European ideas of the "natural" nuclear family, women as passive object, and class differences on a continent with a long history of women with power doing things differently. Amadiume argues for an end to anthropology and calls instead for a social history of Africa, by Africans.

The Alphabet Versus the Goddess

Author : Leonard Shlain
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780140196016
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book The Alphabet Versus the Goddess written by Leonard Shlain and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1999-09-01 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking book proposes that the rise of alphabetic literacy reconfigured the human brain and brought about profound changes in history, religion, and gender relations. Making remarkable connections across brain function, myth, and anthropology, Dr. Shlain shows why pre-literate cultures were principally informed by holistic, right-brain modes that venerated the Goddess, images, and feminine values. Writing drove cultures toward linear left-brain thinking and this shift upset the balance between men and women, initiating the decline of the feminine and ushering in patriarchal rule. Examining the cultures of the Israelites, Greeks, Christians, and Muslims, Shlain reinterprets ancient myths and parables in light of his theory. Provocative and inspiring, this book is a paradigm-shattering work that will transform your view of history and the mind.