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The first sex / Elizabeth Gould Davis.
LIBRA HQ1121 .D37 1978
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Davis, Elizabeth Gould, 1910-1974.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--History.
- Women.
- Women--Social conditions.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 382 pages : maps ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Harmondsworth : Penguin Books, 1978 printing, ©1971.
- Summary:
- Addresses the superiority of women to men, giving woman her rightful place in history. Explores ancient intellectual matriarchal societies, and the brutalization of humanity when they collapsed and men became dominant.
- Contents:
- I: The gynocratic world
- Women and the second sex
- Mythology speaks
- The golden age and the Blessed Lady
- Archeology speaks
- Anthropology speaks
- Fetishes and their origins
- Mother-right
- II: The patriarchal revolution
- Ram versus bull
- The sexual revolution
- III: Pre-Christian women in the Celto-Ionian world
- The pre-Hellenes
- The women of Greece and Italy
- The Celts
- IV: The tragedy of western woman
- The advent of Christianity
- Mary and the great goddess
- Women in the Middle Ages
- Some medieval women
- Women in the reformation
- The age of reason
- the eighteenth century
- Not quite people
- the nineteenth century
- The prejudice lingers on
- Woman in the Aquarian Age.
- Notes:
- Reprint. Originally published: New York : Putnam, 1971.
- "The book that proves that woman's contribution to civilization has been greater than man's." -- Front cover.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Gift of the William Way LGBT Community Center.
- ISBN:
- 0140035044
- 9780140035049
- OCLC:
- 977594249
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