Briefly her thesis is despite old narratives about an inherently flawed humanity, more and more evidence shows humanity is not doomed to perpetuate patterns of violence and oppression. The book is now in 26 foreign editions, including most European languages as well as Chinese, Japanese, Urdu, Korean, Arabic, Hebrew, and Turkish. These challenge conventional views about cultural evolution up to the time of the book's publication. The book closes with two contrasting future scenarios. She traces this tension in Western culture from prehistory to the present. Eisler proposes tension between these two underlies the span of human cultural evolution. 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.Įisler highlights the tension between what she calls the dominator or domination model and the more naturally feminine partnership model.

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