In search of the lost feminine decoding the myths that radically reshaped civilization /
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Golden, Colo. :
Fulcrum,
c2006.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.