Searching for the lost feminine
Subtitle: decoding the myths that radically reshaped civilization
By: by Craig S. Barnes.
Publisher: Fulcrum
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Golden, Colo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 286
Subjects: Sex role -- History; Patriarchy -- History; Minoans; Mythology, Greek
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Minoan artifacts challenge the inevitability of patriarchy; title: The mystery of Minoan civilization; title: An expectation of rebirth or immortality; title: Time as a circle rather than a line; title: The troubling question of war; title: Crete and the issue of female sexuality; title: The ecstatic and the divine as inseperable; title: Five values dramatically at odds with patriarchy; title: The invasions of 1600 BCE : a war culture emerges; title: The Theran explosion : the loss of faith in mother earth; title: The growth of trade : the diminishment of daughters; title: The great civil war over marriage : the end of women-centered culture in the eastern Mediterranean; title: Four hundred years of chaos sets the stage; title: Values shaped by storytellers; title: An exaggerated feminine is made monstrous; title: Mother earth is overthrown; title: Jason resists the many shapes of seductive women; title: Odysseus rejects Calypso; title: Homer poses the choice between love and property; title: Clytemnestra is sacrificed on the altar of marriage; title: Marriage destroys the mother-daughter bond; title: Daughters die for civic good; title: A multitude of myths to tame, punish, and disparage women; title: Oedipus, the lost son; title: A glorious monument enshrines the subordination of women; title: Biblical patriarchs match the Greek story; title: Jesus carries forward the Eleusian symbolism of grain and wine; title: Jesus takes on the threat of military destruction; title: Ancient beliefs spring up among the Celts; title: A short-lived Islamic challenge; title: The metaphor of the holy grail; title: Devil talk and witch burnings; title: Closing the book on the patriarchy; title: Women coming home to dignity; title: The declining utility of war; title: Another story all along.