Alphabet Versus the Goddess: The Conflict Between Word and Image

Title: Alphabet Versus the Goddess: The Conflict Between Word and Image
Author: Leonard Shlain
ISBN: 9780670878833
Publisher: Viking Adult
Published: 1998
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Edition: First Edition
Number of Pages: 480
Section: Social Science | Anthropology | General
Publisher Description: From the author of the bestselling "Art and Physics" comes a new book with breathtaking implications. Making remarkable connections across a wide range of subjects, including neurology, anthropology, history, and religion, "Leonard Shlain" argues that the development of alphabetic literacy itself reinforced the human brain's left hemisphere -- linear, abstract, predominantly masculine -- at the expense of its right -- holistic, concrete, visual, feminine. "The Alphabet Versus the Goddess" charts the connection between alphabetic literacy and monotheism; patriarchy and misogyny, and tracks the correlations between the rise and fall of literacy and the status of women in society, mythology, and religion.