| Edition |
First Ballantine Books Trade edition. |
| Description |
640 pages ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
The long view back : matricentry -- Animal evidence -- Hominids -- Homo Sapiens -- Vestiges of the past -- Artifacts -- Myths -- Customs -- Contemporary gatherers, hunters, and horticulturalists -- The beginning of the end -- The fall : patriarchy -- Theories on the origin of patriarchy -- First steps into patriarchy -- Breaking the bond of love between women and men -- Breaking the bond among women -- Breaking the bond among mother and child -- The establishment of patriarchy -- The masculine and feminine principles -- Diminishment of women -- Diminishment of nature -- The median place of women -- Reestablishments of patriarchy -- Women under patriarchy -- The characteristics of colonization -- Ancient fragments -- The glory and the grandeur : Greece and Rome -- The Christian Age -- Struggle for a room of their own -- Beguines -- The witch trials -- Other doors closing -- The Reformation -- Revolution -- Women, work, and the French Revolution -- Women, work, and the Industrial Revolution -- Women, work, and the revolution within the system -- Nationalist and Socialist revolutions -- Up to the present -- China -- The Soviet Union -- Islam -- Conclusions, outlooks -- Men under patriarchy -- The image of man -- Male structures -- Form -- Purposes, rewards and requirements -- The actuality : contradictions, deceptions, and betrayals -- The actuality : costs -- Male revolt -- The present perspective -- Totalitarianism and patriarchy -- Pillars of society I : the helping profession -- Medicine -- Psychology -- Education -- Pillars of society II : law -- Pillars of society III : corporations -- The journey toward totalitarianism -- Feminism -- Modes of approach to realizing the feminist vision -- Feminist separatism -- Revalorization of "feminine" qualities -- Feminist socialism -- Feminism under capitalism -- The Caryatids : antifeminists? -- The ideal of equality -- The dilemma of feminism -- The long view forward : humanity -- The probable future of a patriarchal world -- Nonhierarchical structure -- Beyond the either/or -- Power -- Aggression -- Sex -- Gender roles -- Values for a new world -- The long view forward. |
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Women -- Social conditions.
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Patriarchy -- History.
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Moral conditions.
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Social history.
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Sex role -- History.
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| ISBN |
0345334051 paperback $11.95 |
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9780345334053 paperback |
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