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Cyborgs Vs Earth Goddess


Cyborgs Versus
the Earth Goddess

Men's Domestication of
Women and Animals
and Female Resistance

by 
m seenarine

2017 Xpyr Press. 358 pages
ISBN: 0692966005
Available on Amazon

"In a rousing, incisive tome that spans centuries, Moses Seenarine deftly unpacks the suppressed histories of female-centered cultures that pre-dated traditional patriarchal hierarchies based on the colonial subjugation of women, children and animals.  Using Stone Age Goddess culture and iconography as a guidepost, Seenarine argues that patriarchal dominance was an anomaly in prehistory.  He explores the ways in which female-centered communities established peaceful, communistic societies anchored by female gathering rather than male hunting.  In so doing, he seeks to challenge the prevailing Darwinian narrative that cultures based on male dominance — predicated on meat consumption, territorialism, misogynistic power and asymmetrical control — were ultimately the most successful and “inevitable” systems of human social development. Acknowledging his privileged position as a male scholar and researcher, Seenarine provides a valuable overview for those interested in the crucial connection between the radical politics of ecofeminism and the contemporary battle over climate change, food justice and sustainability." - Sikivu Hutchinson, Author, Moral Combat: Black Atheists, Gender Politics, and the Values Wars 

Table of Contents

Glossary

 i

Acknowledgments

 iv

Preface by Kirsten Danielle

viii

Foreword by Trista Hendren

 ix

 

 

I: ECOGYNOCENTRISM

 

 

 

1: RECLAIMING THE GODDESS

 

ASIA's Journey 2121.01 

1

Naming the Problem – Men (♂ )

2

10,000 Years of ♂ Dis-order

3

Men's Domesticating Mindset 

4

♂ False His-story

5

Man Versus 'Beast'

6

Reclaiming Her-story ( ♀ )

8

Seven Domestications 

9

Ecogynocentrism 

11

♂ Ending of Ecogynocentrism

12

Cyborgs, the New Prometheus

13

Conclusion

14

 

 

2: ♀ SUBJECTS TO ♂ OBJECTS

 

ASIA's Journey 2121.02 

17

Introduction

18

♀ Roles & the Goddess 

18

Greek Titaness: Metis/Wisdom

19

The Great Fall of ♀ 

20

From Free ♀ to ♂ Tools

21

♀ Resistance 

23

Is 'Cyborgs' ♂ Bashing?

24

Outline

26

Conclusion

27

 

 

II: PALEO ECOGYNOCENTRISM (3M TO 12,000 BP)

 

 

 

3: HOMINID 

 

ASIA's Journey 2121.03

29

Introduction

30

Measuring Time 

30

1st Domestication: Male Apes

31

Pongo: Orangutan

32

Gorilla

33

Pan: Chimpanzee

34

Pan: Bonobo 

34

Conclusion

36

 

 

4: HOMININ 

 

ASIA's Journey 2121.04

38

Introduction

38

Hominid to Hominin 

39

H. Floresiensis 

40

H. Naledi

41

H. Neanderthal

41

Who Killed Off Neanderthals?

41

H. Denisovan

42

Progress As ♂ Carnism

43

Conclusion

44

 

 

5: HOMO SAPIENS 

 

ASIA's Journey 2121.05

46

Introduction

47

Plant-based Hominins

47

Difference - Bipedal Apes

48

Dawn of 'Modern' Sapiens

50

Homo Social Evolution 

51

Childcare & Evolution 

53

Mitochondrial 'Eve'

55

Sex-Determination

55

Conclusion

56

 

 

6: WOMAN-THE-GATHERER

 

ASIA's Journey 2121.06

58

Introduction

58

Woman-the-Gatherer

59

Paleo Carb Diet 

60

Losing Gut Flora 

61

Animals in Paleo Art 

62

Gynocentric Dancing 

63

Conclusion

64

 

 

7: FEMALE FIRE-KEEPER

 

ASIA's Journey 2121.07 

66

Introduction

66

2nd Domestication: Fire

67

Man-the-Fire-Hunter

68

♀ Hearth-fire

69

3rd Taming: Fire Farming

69

♀ Cooking

70

Fire & ♀ Ritual

71

Conclusion

73

 

 

8: FEMALE ARTISTS 

 

ASIA's Journey 2121.08 

75

Introduction

75

Maternal Brain

76

Grandmother Hypothesis 

76

Early Paleo Art 

77

♀ Hand-prints

78

Woman/Goddess Figures

79

Avdeevo Woman/Goddess 

80

Why Portable Art of ♀ ?

80

Goddess of Mothers

82

Conclusion 

82

 

 

9: PALEO SEX CHOICE

 

ASIA's Journey 2121.09

84

Introduction 

85

Are ♂ 'Driven' to Rape?

85

Feminist Critique of Darwin

86

♀ Choice in Sex Selection

87

Unrestrained ♀ 

88

Medicine ♀ 

89

4th Taming: Wolves

90

Conclusion

91

 

 

10: MAN-THE-KILLER?

 

ASIA's Journey 2121.10 

93

Introduction 

94

Sexual Differentiation

94

Demonic Males?

95

Megafauna Extinction

95

Paleo Wars?

96

New Stone Age Genocides

97

Socialized Gene Expression 

99

♂ Have Inferior Genes? 

100

Conclusion 

101

 

 

11: PALEO-FEMALE CULTURE

 

ASIA's Journey 2121.11 

103

Introduction 

104

♀ Bodies

104

♀ Blood Power

105

♀ Language 

106

♀ Pottery

107

♀ Dress & Textile

107

Animal Folktales

108

Conclusion

109

 

 

III: NEOLITHIC GYNOCENTRISM (12,000 TO 7,000 BP)

 

 

 

12: FIFTH TAMING - CROPS

 

ASIA's Journey 2121.12 

111

Introduction

111

5th Domestication: ♀ Farming

112

Why Intensive Agriculture?

113

Sedentary Diet 

114

New Stone Age ♀ 

115

Mehrgarh

116

Gynocentric Pet - Cats

116

Harvest Goddesses

117

Conclusion

118

 

 

13: EARTH GODDESSES

 

ASIA's Journey 2121.13 

120

Introduction

121

Mother/Earth Goddesses

121

African Goddesses

122

Australian Goddesses

123

Near East Goddesses

123

South Asian Goddesses

124

East Asian Goddesses

124

American Goddesses

125

European Goddesses

125

Conclusion

126

 

 

14: LADY OF THE BEASTS 

 

ASIA's Journey 2121.14 

128

Introduction

128

New Stone Age Europe

129

Aegean Cultures

129

Animalism 

130

Lady of the 'Beasts'

131

She-Bear, the Great Mother

132

Other Animal Goddesses

132

Sacred Vulva & Sexuality

133

Conclusion

134

 

 

15: GODDESS BEING 

 

ASIA's Journey 2121.15 

136

Introduction

137

Moon Goddess: ♀ Time 

137

Triple Goddesses: ♀ Cycle

138

Goddess Theory: Gimbutas

139

Deer Goddess: ♀ Spirituality 

140

Mound/Megalith: ♀ Belief

140

Oracles: ♀ Prophecy

141

Goddess Cybele: ♀ Legacy

142

Sibyl: ♀ Legends

143

Conclusion

145

 

 

16: GYNOCENTRIC POWER

 

ASIA's Journey 2121.16 

147

Introduction 

147

♀ Property

148

Matrilocal Dating

148

♀ Governance

149

Mothers' Gift Economy

150

Matrilocal Research

151

♀ Inner Orientation 

152

Roman Goddess: Justitia

153

Modern Matrilineality

153

Conclusion

155

 

 

17: THEORIZING HISTORY

 

ASIA's Journey 2121.17 

157

Introduction

158

Gyno-Socialism 

158

Capitalist-based ♂ Science

159

Gimbutas's Spinning 

160

♂ Dismissal of Gimbutas

160

Feminist Backlash

161

Prehistory Was ♀ 

162

Roman Goddess: Aequitas

163

Conclusion

164

 

 

IV: RISE OF CYBORGS (8,000 TO 5,000 BP)     

 

 

 

18: TAMING NATURE

 

ASIA's Journey 2121.18 

166

Introduction

167

Yamnaya ♂ Invasion

167

Neolithic Y-Bottleneck

169

Monopolizing ♀ Surplus

170

Mound Cities: Çatalhöyük 

170

♂ Cities & 'Mountains'

171

Greek Titaness: Nyx/Night 

172

Conclusion

173

 

 

19: TAMING THE 'BEAST' 

 

ASIA's Journey 2121.19 

176

Introduction

177

♂ Bodies

177

Is the Y Going Extinct?

177

6th Colonization: Ruminants

178

Chronology of Domesticates

179

♂ Animal-based Economy

179

♂ Transcending Animals & ♀ 

180

War and Masculinity

181

Angelic Men Vs Earthlings 

183

♂ Supremacy Over Animals

184

Conclusion

185

 

 

20: WARHORSE & TOXIC MASCULINITY 

 

ASIA's Journey 2121.20 

187

Introduction

188

Sacred Equine

188

Equid to Horse

189

♂ Chariotry & Warfare

189

♂ War Horses

190

Horse as Symbolism 

191

♂ Bull Gods 

191

Egyptian Animal Sacrifice

192

Greek Titaness: Themis/Order

192

Bronze Age Queens 

193

Conclusion 

195

 

 

21: CODIFYING ♂ PROPERTY 

 

ASIA's Journey 2121.21 

197

Introduction

197

7th Domestication: Females 

198

Animal Husbandry Laws

199

♀ as Property of ♂ 

200

Babylonian Masculinity 

202

Literacy: Codifying Patriarchy

203

Greek Titaness: Dike/Justice 

205

Bronze Age ♀ Resistance

206

Conclusion

208

 

 

22: MASTERING GAIA 

 

ASIA's Journey 2121.22 

210

Introduction

210

Subverting Goddess Myths

211

♂ Myths - Medusa

213

♂ Myths – Persephone

213

♂ Myths – Female Rivalry

214

Removing Sacred from Earth

215

Elizabeth Gould Davis

216

Merlin Stone

217

♀ Resistance in Christendom

218

Conclusion

220

 

 

V: CYBORG TERROR & THEORY (PRESENT)

 

 

 

23: TERRORIZING ANIMALS

 

ASIA's Journey 2121.23 

222

Introduction

222

Theorizing Animality

223

Naming the 'Other' 

224

The 'Other' is Us

225

Animals and Hierarchy

226

Elite ♂ Progress

227

♂ Deviant Violence

228

Animals-as-Capital

229

♂ War and Ecocide

230

Conclusion

231

 

 

24: 'CIVILIZING' FEMALES

 

ASIA's Journey 2121.24 

233

Introduction

234

♂ Economics

235

♂ Sex-Based Oppression

235

'Empowered' ♀ in USA?

236

♀ Employment Inequality

238

Wasting ♀ Time

239

Woman-the-Farmer

240

Structural ♀ 'Empowerment'

241

Empowering ♂ NGOs

242

Greek Titaness: Adrestia

242

Conclusion

243

 

 

25: TERRORIZING FEMALES

 

ASIA's Journey 2121.25 

245

Introduction

246

♂ Colonization of ♀ Bodies

246

♀ Reproductive Subjugation

247

Cyborgs' Child Brides

248

Cyborg Harassment 

249

♂ Domestic Violence

250

Cyborg Rape Culture

251

♂ Inter-sectional Misogyny

253

♀ Resistance & Femicide

253

War and Misogyny

254

Greek Titaness: Nemesis

255

Conclusion

256

 

 

26: PORNIFYING CULTURE

 

ASIA's Journey 2121.26 

258

Introduction

258

Misogynist Media

259

Shades of ♀ Reduction

259

Misogynist Success 

260

♀ Complicity

261

♀ Beauty & Misogyny

262

Disposable Females

263

Porn & ♀ Abuse

263

Anal Domination of ♀ 

264

Acting Like a Man

265

Greek Titaness: Erinyes

266

Conclusion

267

 

 

27: THEORIZING 'FEMALE'

 

ASIA's Journey 2121.27 

269

Introduction

269

Cyborgs' Dualism

270

Rejecting Difference

271

Trans(sending) 'Females'

271

Essentialist Stigma 

272

Trans Critical is Intersectional

273

Strategic Essentialism

274

Feminist Appropriations

275

Revolutionary Women

275

Robotic 'Females'

277

Re-claiming Earth/Goddess

278

Conclusion

279

 

 

VI: RESISTANCE

 

 

 

28: RADICAL ECOFEMINISM

 

ASIA's Journey 2121.28 

281

Introduction

281

Ecology & Feminism 

282

Critique of Conservation

282

Revolutionary Ecofeminism

284

Ecofeminism and Women

286

Plant-based Feminists

286

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

287

Greek Titaness: Gaia

288

Gynocentric Continuity

289

Analysis to Praxis

289




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