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Sacred Pleasure : Sex, Myth, and the Politics of the Body- New Paths to
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Synopsis
In this provocative tour de force, Eisler tackles the sexual myths and misconceptions
that have corrupted male/female relations over the millennia. In a sweeping
canvas, she takes readers back in time to reveal a world where men and women
once lived in harmony and where sexuality was a celebrated mystery.
Reviews:
A reader, 02/20/98 Vicious and ignorant
reviews by rightwing nuts.
David Loy, Book Review Editor of World Futures- Anonymous in one case, in
keeping with stealth campaign tactics, some purported reviews here are symptoms
of the dominator regression Riane Eisler writes of in this brilliant book.
In recognition of her major contribution, which millions of readers of the
U.S. and 16 foreign editions deeply cherish, Eisler was recently named by
leading scholars as one of the twenty top macrohistorians ó first
woman to be included in the ranks of Vico, Hegel, Adam Smith, Toynbee and
Sorokin.
A reader, 02/09/98 Author created her
own history.
Words such as "new history", "pre-history", "fact",
and "research" just don't mix. The author created her own reality
of what she wished history was like. As example: if Eisler would have shed
her own biases and researched the initial "AIDS" work, she would
have learned why the CDC changed the name of this very controlable disease.
Instead she is blinded by political correctness and revisionism. Behaviour
has consequences.
D. , 02/03/98 Hooray for pleasure that
is sacred!
As a proponent of the cultural transformation movement, moving our society
from a dominator system to a partnership system, I was enchanted with this
book. Expansion of the systemic changes to include pain/pleasure concept
fits right in with the dominator/partnership models. Moving from pain, to
partnership, peace and sacred pleasure urges me to continue my efforts to
change the system
Gunnar Odhner , 11/23/96
This is the sort of American junk that this country turns out 13 on the
dozen. The author doesn¥t understand that what she sees in history is
controversial, that the seer is controversial and that what you see is coloured
and thwarted by the seer. If she had read Bourdieu she would not have written
all those naive and silly things. Our civilisation is moving towards partnership,
because of a deep and strong urge in human nature? So why aren't we there
after 25 million years? How stupid can you get? I'm also an author and I
am ashamed to be in the same trade as Eisler. Gunnar Odhner, Karlstad, Sweden
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