“It is also more than likely that women invented that most fundamental of all material technologies, without which civilization could not have evolved: the domestication of plants and animals. In fact, even though this is hardly ever mentioned in the books and classes where we learn history of "ancient man", most scholars today agree that this is probably how it was. They note that in contemporary gatherer-hunter societies, women, not men, are typically in charge of processing food. It would thus have been more likely that it was women who first dropped seeds on the ground of their encampments, and also began to tame young animals by feeding and caring for them as they did for their own young. Anthropologists also point to the fact that in the primarily horticultural economies of "developing" tribes and nations, contrary to Western assumptions, the cultivation of the soil is to this day primarily in the hands of women.” ReligionSpiritualityWomenPre History Book:The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future Source: The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future
“Rather than being any longer a threat to the established androcratic order, Christianity became what practically all this earth's religions, launched in the name of spiritual enlightenment and freedom, have also become: a powerful way of perpetuating that order.” WayEarthSpiritualReligionOrderNamesWomenPowerfulChristianityEnlightenmentThreatPerpetuatingSpiritual Enlightenment Author:Riane Eisler
“That both Muslim fundamentalists and the Christian right are today focusing their attempts to regain control in a rapidly changing world on frantic efforts to maintain control over women, particularly over women's sexuality. Moreover, given their mythologies about "holy wars," it is also understandable that they should use "divinely approved" violence to do so.” WorldShouldWarUseTodayChristianReligionGivenWomenEffortViolenceHolySexualityMythologyApprovedFranticChristian RightHoly War Author:Riane Eisler
“...gender relationships, which are tough for people to deal with, are key to whether a society orients to domination or partnership in all its relations.” PeopleWomenDealsSocietyKeysToughRelationGenderPartnershipWomens RightsDomination Author:Riane Eisler
“For most of recorded history, parental violence against children and men's violence against wives was explicitly or implicitly condoned. Those who had the power to prevent and/or punish this violence through religion, law, or custom, openly or tacitly approved it. .....The reason violence against women and children is finally out in the open is that activists have brought it to global attention.” MenChildrenReasonLawWomenAttentionWifeViolenceCustomsActivistApprovalWomens RightsDomestic ViolenceApprovedViolence Against WomenParentalStop Violence Against Women Author:Riane Eisler
