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Using recent archeological findings, eisler demonstrates that peaceful societies actually existed. Our history, our future has sold over 500,000 copies and has been translated into 26 languages including chinese, arabic, hebrew, german, japanese, korean, urdu, russian, spanish, french, italian, greek, portuguese, finnish, danish, czech. Read the chalice and the blade our history our future online, read in mobile or kindle. The author presents a conceptual framework for studying social systems with particular attention to how a society constructs roles and relations between the female and male halves of humanity. The chalice and the blade tells a new story of our cultural origins. Connecting with the movement shaping our culture rad american women az.
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