Sex, Time, and Power: How Womens Sexuality Shaped Human Evolution

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Things seem not to be changing at all for hundreds thousands of years, then comes punctuated change. It's one of my favorite books ever. Everyone wonders, "why am I here"?

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This book answers that question through the ages - young women, middle aged women, older women, all have a grand purpose in the design of life. You can be the very best corporate exec, movie star, chic jet-setter, but the power is in the genes. And the ability to pass DNA on And as we age, we become the protector and wisdom-stower upon our progeny. Even if you can't or don't have children, the answers to life's whys? And how did THAT get passed along as our accepted form of mating, why not one husband and lots of wives?

Sex, Time and Power: How Women's Sexuality Shaped Human Evolution

And I never would have dreamed that the woman's monthly cycle has such a huge impact on This is a complex thesis so arguing it was going to be difficult. After all, each concept is individually difficult, and here Mr. Shlain is attempting to wrangle them all together into one. In my opinion, he succeeds. I don't always come to the same conclusion as he does, but I admire his thinking process and his ambitiousness in tackling this subject.

Very personably written, too. It's nice when you feel like a real person is talking to you, and the book is not a barrier in the conversation. This book does that very well. I really appreciate the fluidity of Schlain's writing. It's refreshing to see a narrative approach vs the dense academic writing one usually sees when scientific theory and data is presented.

I disagree that it is a slow read. What may be slow is that he provides concrete examples and narrative excerpts of how this idea might play out. Schlain is an excellent teacher. I could not put this book down.

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Sex, Time, and Power: How Women's Sexuality Shaped Human Evolution

In his earlier book, The Alphabet Versus the Goddess, he hypothesized that the invention of writing reconfigured the brain so as to reinforce the masculine animus at the expense of the feminine anima. In this book, he is looking at even deeper evolutionary currents that might feed these patterns in our species. Even though you might not agree with Shlain's hypotheses, he stimulates you to create your own. I suggest beginning at the end of this book. Read the epilogue which tells how he happened to write the book, then read his summary Chapter Go on to his final chapter 24 in which he describes what it would be like for women in particular and for men in particular to have the sexual experience of other mammals of their sex.

Then he reminds us of the unique gift of human familial relationships and asks the reader if that overrides the vexatious problems nature has saddled us with. These three sections are a treat and let you know where he is going so that you can leisurely read from the beginning his step-by-step detailed path to his conclusion.

Shlain notes that evolutionary change takes place in sudden spurts. Things seem not to be changing at all for hundreds thousands of years, then comes punctuated change. It's one of my favorite books ever. Everyone wonders, "why am I here"? This book answers that question through the ages - young women, middle aged women, older women, all have a grand purpose in the design of life.

You can be the very best corporate exec, movie star, chic jet-setter, but the power is in the genes. And the ability to pass DNA on And as we age, we become the protector and wisdom-stower upon our progeny. Even if you can't or don't have children, the answers to life's whys? And how did THAT get passed along as our accepted form of mating, why not one husband and lots of wives? And I never would have dreamed that the woman's monthly cycle has such a huge impact on This is a complex thesis so arguing it was going to be difficult.

After all, each concept is individually difficult, and here Mr. Shlain is attempting to wrangle them all together into one. In my opinion, he succeeds. I don't always come to the same conclusion as he does, but I admire his thinking process and his ambitiousness in tackling this subject.

Very personably written, too. It's nice when you feel like a real person is talking to you, and the book is not a barrier in the conversation. This book does that very well.

I really appreciate the fluidity of Schlain's writing. It's refreshing to see a narrative approach vs the dense academic writing one usually sees when scientific theory and data is presented.

I disagree that it is a slow read. What may be slow is that he provides concrete examples and narrative excerpts of how this idea might play out. Schlain is an excellent teacher. I could not put this book down. See all 79 reviews. Most recent customer reviews. Talks about the physiology of women and the Published 2 months ago. Published 1 year ago. Published on February 3, Published on January 30, Published on January 11, Published on November 16, Published on October 17, Published on July 26, Amazon Giveaway allows you to run promotional giveaways in order to create buzz, reward your audience, and attract new followers and customers.

Learn more about Amazon Giveaway. Sex, Time, and Power: Set up a giveaway. Upon learning the majestic secret of time, these ancestral females then gained the power to refuse sex when they were ovulating. Men were forced to confront women who possessed a mind of their own. Unfortunately, they also discovered that they were mortal.

Men then invented religions to soften the certainty of death. Subsequently, they belatedly grasped the functions of sex. The possibility of achieving a kind of immortality through heirs drove men to construct patriarchal cultures whose purpose was to control women's reproductive choices. Sex, Time, and Power is a compelling book that challenges accepted views of human sexuality and is sure to stimulate new thinking about old matters. Iron, Sex, and Women 1.

Iron, Sex, and Men 9. Sex and Time Death and Paternity Men and Women Notes Includes bibliographical references p. View online Borrow Buy Freely available Show 0 more links Related resource Publisher description at http: Set up My libraries How do I set up "My libraries"?

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