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001 2005032942
003 DLC
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008 051110s2006 cou b 001 0 eng
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050 00 $aHQ1075$b.B356 2005
082 00 $a305.309182/1$222
100 1 $aBarnes, Craig S.
245 10 $aSearching for the lost feminine :$bdecoding the myths that radically reshaped civilization /$cby Craig S. Barnes.
260 $aGolden, Colo. :$bFulcrum,$c2006.
263 $a0606
300 $ap. cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction -- 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 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 -- 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 enshrines the subordination of women -- Biblical patriarchs match the Greek story -- 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 -- 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.