This is an excellent read, as are all Riane Eisler's books. But, once you've read it, you can't unsee that the climate crisis and social breakdown we live in are woven in with the whole patriarchal culture and our fatal divorce from nature. It's both illuminating and depressing.

Wow that's intriguing.

Damn...are you coming out full Mother Goddess Have you given up on going for the Presidency?

And the destruction of generations of knowledge with the extermination of every wise woman in Europe by the Catholic Church.

But don't stop there: A Women's History of the World by Rosalind Miles; The Great Cosmic Mother by Monica Sjöö and Barbara Mor; Backlash; the Undeclared War Against American Women by Susan Faludi; The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan; My Life on the Road by Gloria Steinem. 1/

Men may have absolutely asserted the patriarchy but it is also true that women bought it and started selling it at wholesale, and still do every single day. This does sound like an interesting read. Thanks for the suggestion.

The turn to sedentary agriculture, accumulation of surplus, control of women to control property and inheritance...