[PDF.73eo] The Alphabet Versus the Goddess: The Conflict Between Word and Image (Compass)

The Alphabet Versus the Goddess: The Conflict Between Word and Image (Compass)

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 | #48444 in Books |  Penguin Books |  1999-09-01 |  1999-09-01 | Ingredients: Example Ingredients | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.50 x1.00 x5.50l,.99 | File type: PDF | 464 pages

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||4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| The stereo brain... threat or menace?|By travel light and smiling|The author comes right out of the gate with his theory that because of the structure of writing, it has been used as something to dominate women.
Writing is linear, left-brain activity. That, evidently, is not a natural tendency of women. Before that howl leaves your mouth, my own experience is that very fe|.com |"Literacy has promoted the subjugation of women by men throughout all but the very recent history of the West," writes Leonard Shlain. "Misogyny and patriarchy rise and fall with the fortunes of the alphabetic written word."| That's a pretty audacious cl

This groundbreaking book proposes that the rise of alphabetic literacy reconfigured the human brain and brought about profound changes in history, religion, and gender relations. Making remarkable connections across brain function, myth, and anthropology, Dr. Shlain shows why pre-literate cultures were principally informed by holistic, right-brain modes that venerated the Goddess, images, and feminine values. Writing drove cultures toward linear left-brain thinkin...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.The Alphabet Versus the Goddess: The Conflict Between Word and Image (Compass)   |  Leonard Shlain. I have read it a couple of times and even shared with my family members. Really good. Couldnt put it down.

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