e work of contemporary writers, among them Gimbutas, whom she criticizes for presuming a pre patriarchal paradise where all was benign between the genders and the earth. Reuther warns about the danger of associating women with nature, nurturing, benign, peaceful, promoting mutuality and partnership and presumption that males are not as capable of these qualities. Reuther uses Peggy Reeves Sanday's book, "Female Power and Male dominance: on the Origins of Sexual Inequality", to argue that a new form of gender parity is essential. Men's only role can not consist of being an adjunct to women; this would lead to male resentment and violence. Reuther suggests that a " reconstruction of the relation of the domestic core of society to the larger society" (p. 171) is essential to create a new society. Men must be equally responsible for domestic work and child up bringing, instead of helping out. Chapter seven demonstrates the interconnection of domination and deceit. Reuther insists that classical traditions sacralized patriarchal hierarchy over women, workers, and the earth. She explores ancient cultures of Mesopotamia, Israel, classical Athens, looking at patterns of domination and its justification. The author examines how the synthesis of asceticism, apocaptilism, Christianity, Calvinism, scientific revolution, colonialism and industrialization have evolved into a contemporary crisis caused by domination and deceptive ideas of endless "progress" and "development". Reuther sees the elite male denial of interdependency as the cause of evil. The author emphasizes the importance of three elements in the quest for an ecological culture and society. First the rebuilding of local communities, where people are responsible for the ecosystem of which they are part. Second, just relations between humans that accept the right of all members of the community to an equitable share in the means of subsistence. And finally, an overcoming of the culture of...
