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LEADER: 02911cam a22003134a 4500
001 2005032942
003 DLC
005 20070411093931.0
008 051110s2006 couabf b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2005032942
020 $a1555914896 (pbk.)
020 $a9781555914899 (pbk.)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocm62342024
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050 00 $aHQ1075$b.B356 2006
082 00 $a305.309182/1$222
100 1 $aBarnes, Craig S.
245 10 $aIn search of the lost feminine :$bdecoding the myths that radically reshaped civilization /$cCraig S. Barnes.
246 30 $aLost feminine
260 $aGolden, Colo. :$bFulcrum,$cc2006.
300 $axv, 286 p., [8] p. of plates :$bill. (some col.), maps ;$c23 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 265-270) and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction : 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.
650 0 $aSex role$xHistory.
650 0 $aPatriarchy$xHistory.
650 0 $aMinoans.
650 0 $aMythology, Greek.
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip063/2005032942.html