Nurturing our humanity : how domination and partnership shape our brains, lives, and future /

Nurturing Our Humanity offers a new perspective on our personal and social options in today's world, showing how to structure our environments--from family and gender relations to politics and economics--to support our great capacities for consciousness, caring, and creativity. It examines wher...

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Main Authors: Eisler, Riane Tennenhaus (Author), Fry, Douglas P., 1953- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, [2019]
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Summary:Nurturing Our Humanity offers a new perspective on our personal and social options in today's world, showing how to structure our environments--from family and gender relations to politics and economics--to support our great capacities for consciousness, caring, and creativity. It examines where societies fall on the partnership-domination scale, and how this impacts equity, sustainability, peace, and how our brains develop. Combining cutting-edge findings from biological and social science, it explains regressions to strongman rule and other dangerous trends; re-examines our past (including s.
Physical Description:1 online resource
ISBN:9780190935757
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