Alphabet Versus the Goddess; Author: Shlain, Leonard (Chief of Laparascopic Surgery, University of California, San Francisco Medical Centre, USA); Hardback; Book

Author: Shlain, Leonard (Chief of Laparascopic Surgery, University of California, San Francisco Medical Centre, USA)
Hardback; Book; Ill. Port.
480 pages
Published: April 1999
Penguin Books Ltd
ISBN: 0713992972
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A ground-breaking book that will transform your view of history and the mind. The author proposes that the invention of the alphabet and the process of reading itself fundamentally rewired the human brain, with profound consequences for culture, history and religion. The result was an immediate decline in the status of women and the rise of monolithic masculine cultures.This text proposes that the invention of the alphabet and the process of reading itself fundamentally rewired the human brain, with profound consequences for culture, history and religion. It claims that the result was an immediate decline in the status of women.