For all of our progress,the world stubbornly retains a male-dominated, competitive streak. Certainly the emphasis our culture places on enterprise has given us much, but what have we sacrificed along the way? Carol Lee Flinders argues that the more ancient values of Belonging (mutuality, cooperation, and generosity), traditionally associated with women, have been subsumed by those of Enterprise (individualism, competitiveness, and materialism), associated with men. In the lives of visionaries, artists, and mystics such as the Buddha, Baal Shem Tov, Teresa of Avila, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, John Muir, and Martin Luther King Jr., Flinders offers models for a new kind of balance. Rebalancing the World urges us to incorporate the values we are missing in our lives for the sense of wholeness we all seek.
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Carol Lee Flinders, author of the highly acclaimed Enduring Grace and At the Root of This Longing and coauthor of the million-copy-bestselling Laurel's Kitchen, holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature and is a well-known speaker and teacher who has taught writing and mystical literature courses at the University of California, Berkeley.
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Feminist takes on how women lost power usually have an angry edge. Carol Lee Flinders' book covers some of the same ground, but her point of view is reflective and spiritual. She believes, as many of us do, that we need the strengths of both men and women to make our world work, and that each of us needs the parts of ourselves that we might have suppressed because they weren't feminine, or masculine, enough.This isn't a scientific treatise, and Flinders doesn't attempt to prove things so much as offer new ways of looking at where we are, and where we might go from here.
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On the Willamette Valley farm in Oregon where I spent my childhood, it wasn't uncommon to find arrowheads chipped out of obsidian flakes or flint, and one spring when my father was plowing the bottomland near the creek he turned up a bowl made of stone. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
aggressive male dominance, foraging life, historic religions, primal religions, gender schemas, warrior culture Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Australian Aborigines, Kalahari San, Agricultural Revolution, American Indians, Axial Age, Native Americans, Congo Pygmies, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, New Zealand, Rebalancing the World, Roman Empire, Adobe Creek, Huston Smith, Ituri Forest, Peggy Sanday, Trance Dance, Gregory Bateson, Gundestrup Cauldron, John Muir, Mescalero Apache, Woman's Bible New!
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- Steps to an Ecology of Mind: Collected Essays in Anthropology, Psychiatry, Evolution, and Epistemology by Gregory Bateson in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Third Sex: New Professional Woman by Patricia A. McBroom on page 168, and Back Matter
- Blood Rites by Barbara Ehrenreich on page 22, and Back Matter
- IN THE AGE OF MANKIND PB by LEWIN ROGER in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Ohlone Way: Indian Life in the San Francisco-Monterey Bay Area by Malcolm Margolin on page 57, and Back Matter
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- Enduring Lives: Portraits of Women and Faith in Action by Carol Flinders in Front Matter
- Creating Partnerships: Unleashing Collaborative Power in the Workplace by Cynthia King in Back Matter
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