LEADER 04219nam 22006134a 450 001 9910777932403321 005 20230829002613.0 010 $a1-282-46763-8 010 $a9786612467639 010 $a1-55591-846-8 035 $a(CKB)1000000000769269 035 $a(EBL)478421 035 $a(OCoLC)609853893 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000081569 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11110754 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000081569 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10113057 035 $a(PQKB)10771791 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC478421 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL478421 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10303268 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL246763 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000769269 100 $a20051110d2006 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aIn search of the lost feminine$b[electronic resource] $edecoding the myths that radically reshaped civilization /$fCraig S. Barnes 210 $aGolden, Colo. $cFulcrum$dc2006 215 $a1 online resource (304 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-55591-489-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 265-270) and index. 327 $aIntroduction : rewriting the story of western civilization -- 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 collapse of the Minoan world -- 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 -- A warrior civilization emerges -- 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 enshrining the subordination of women -- Biblical patriarchs match the Greek story -- Objections to the warrior civilization -- 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 -- History as a choice of stories -- Women coming home to dignity -- The declining utility of war -- Another story all along. 330 $aHere, for the first time, threads of truth explaining the mysterious disappearance of ancient cultures-in which women and the environment were at the center-have been woven together to illustrate this loss which has dramatically influenced 3,500 years of western history. The ancient world had not only treated women with respect but had been more resistant to war, more attentive to earth's cycles, more ecstatic. Then suddenly the whole culture vanished. The loss was ushered in by volcanoes and poets, gods of death and caricatures of maddening women, Scylla, Charybdis, Medea, and Calypso-all of 606 $aSex role$xHistory 606 $aPatriarchy$xHistory 606 $aMinoans 606 $aMythology, Greek 615 0$aSex role$xHistory. 615 0$aPatriarchy$xHistory. 615 0$aMinoans. 615 0$aMythology, Greek. 676 $a305.309182/1 700 $aBarnes$b Craig S$01506927 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910777932403321 996 $aIn search of the lost feminine$93737358 997 $aUNINA