"Woman of Age"

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This paper discusses and analyzes the book "The Crone: Woman of Age, Wisdom, and Power" by Barbara G. Walker, a celebration of women and how women are learning more about each other and the male-dominated world they live in, every day. Specifically, it relates some of the book's theories to today's issues, including the significance and quality that leads one to broadening the understanding of woman's history. It also contains an analysis of how it correlates and contrasts to the theories presented in another book entitled: "The Chalice and the Blade" by Riane Eisler.

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"After reading Walker's treatise on woman as Goddess and woman as all-loving, one has to wonder what has happened to society today to change things so drastically. Women are no longer revered as all knowing and all loving. In fact, the author believes some of this resulting loss of love for women is a result of men, and their inhumanity to women. "Few men have tried to understand the real causes of man's inhumanity to women" (Walker 133), she writes, and one only has to look at the Islamic religion, and their total degradation of women, to understand what she means in today's terms. Women have no standing in Muslim countries, and are thought of mostly as beasts of burden and breeding machines. In the recent terrorism video of the infamous "wedding reception," shown on network news, the wedding reception consisted entirely of Muslim men, the bride was not even present at her own reception! This shows just how far women have fallen in many societies, and how far they need to go to gain true equality in the world."

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