In Eisler’s alternative history, Woman the Gatherer is the central actor. In the traditional view, Man the Hunter plays the leading role, forming the beginnings of ancient civilization by wielding the lethal blade. She describes herself as blowing the lid off “the biggest cover-up in the world.” At a certain historical turning point, she says, the men in power deliberately buried the truth about the egalitarian nature of past society.įollowing 12 years of rigorous research and synthesizing the work of many others, Eisler proposes that conventional historians are painting the wrong picture of the origins of civilization. Her book reconstructs an early world of partnership between men and women, which lasted about 20,000 years, and then veered off on “a bloody 5,000-year detour” of male domination. According to Riane Eisler, this eerie phenomenon already happened long ago.Įisler traces the unseen forces that shape human culture, from prehistory through recorded history and into the future. In his book “1984,” George Orwell foresaw a future in which a “Ministry of Truth” would rewrite society’s books and refashion its ideas so that they would fit the requirements of the men in power.
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