Publisher's Synopsis
Discover how religion, history, and philosophy have shaped our society into the patriarchal system it is today-and how we can achieve real gender equality in the modern world-with author R. Allan Dermott's intriguing new book, The Fluctuating Equality Imposed on Women.
Beginning with the Hebrews over nine thousand years ago, Dermott traces the various influences that have converged over millennia in order to produce the male-dominated society in which the world lives today.
These influences come from every part of life, including the basic concepts of religion that many people take for granted. For example, Dermott explains the two differing concepts of God: the masculine-feminine Elohim and the evolving figure of Jehovah. This evolution was ultimately fueled by Hebrew women's desire for an entity that would assist in fertility and child-rearing, as the snake goddess Asherah did before.
Readers can compare the views of women by figures such as Plato, Aristotle, and Christ while learning how even translations of epistles were performed with ulterior motives.
An important look at a system that very few seem to question, this tome encourages us to reject both the matriarch and the patriarch-and instead strive for equality for all.
