Elise Boulding (1920–2010)

Volume one of two. This classic in feminist literature provides an account of women's creativity in every age from pre-history to the present, and attempts to view women's roles in the context of the total time span of human experience. Boulding takes us on a breathtaking tour through time: the hundred-thousand-year wanderings of the Paleolithic into the great transition from hunting and gathering to herding and planting; from life inside city walls to the great primary civilizations of the Middle East and Asia, as well as the feudal civilizations on its fringes; and from the sweep of culture generated by the Greco-Romanic-Islamic empires to "European Enlightenment" and the last two centuries and the gradual industrialization-urbanization of the planet.… (altro)

This book is volume one of a two-volume set. This classic in feminist literature provides an account of women's creativity in every age from pre-history to the present, and attempts to view women's roles in the context of the total time span of human experience. In clear and elegant prose, the author takes us on a breathtaking tour through time: we move through the hundred-thousand-year wanderings of the Paleolithic into the great transition from hunting and gathering to herding and planting; from life inside city walls to the great primary civilizations of the Middle East and Asia, as well as the feudal civilizations on its fringes; and from the sweep of culture generated by the Greco-Romanic-Islamic empires to "European Enlightenment" and, finally, to the last two centuries and the gradual industrialization-urbanization of the planet.… (altro)

Elise Boulding who died in 2010 was born in Oslo and emigrated to America with her parents in 1928 She was a Quaker, Sociologist, and Peace activist known for her holistic, multi-dimensional approach to peace research and conflict resolution and the dynamics these two opposites play within the family unit. Collected together in this book is a series of personal essays that explore the concept of peacebuilding as a daily process and how the lessons learned at the family level can be applied to peacebuilding on a world scale.

Some of essays were first published as Pendle Hil Pamphlets… (altro)