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Author Derlet, Marlene, 1936-

Title Invisible Women of Prehistory : Three Million Years of Peace, Six Thousand Years of War.

Publication Info. North Melbourne : Spinifex Press, 2013.

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Description 1 online resource (420 pages)
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Summary We often think of history as a linear development in which we are steadily moving out of a violent and patriarchal past to a more equitable and peaceful future. While we have no shortage of wars - and the incidence of violence against women is alarmingly high - we are told that humans have never lived in such peaceful times, that our predecessors were violent, and that patriarchy is inevitable and universal. But what if none of this were true, and we are descended from peaceful societies in which women were respected and equal to men? Based on m.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents pt. 1. The prehistoric female principle : the goddess of Old Europe -- pt. 2. The Indo-Europeans : 'civilisation' and history begin -- pt. 3. The hidden and new worlds : prehistories, the female principle and Indo-European influences.
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Subject Women -- History -- To 500.
Women.
History.
Chronological Term To 500
Subject Women -- Social conditions.
Women -- Social conditions.
Prehistoric peoples.
Prehistoric peoples.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Subject Women.
Womyn.
Added Author Foster, Judy.
Other Form: Print version: Derlet, Marlene. Invisible Women of Prehistory : Three Million Years of Peace, Six Thousand Years of War. North Melbourne : Spinifex Press, ©2013 9781876756918
ISBN 9781742195483 (electronic book)
1742195482 (electronic book)
9781742195513
1742195512
9781876756918
1876756918
9781306024747 (MyiLibrary)
1306024749 (MyiLibrary)
Standard No. YBP10687429