ISBN:
9780190935740
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (377 pages)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
302
Keywords:
Interpersonal relations
;
Dominance (Psychology)
;
Partnership-Psychological aspects
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
Nurturing Our Humanity offers a new perspective on our personal and social options in today's world, showing how to structure our environments--from family and gender relations to politics and economics--to support our great capacities for consciousness, caring, and creativity. It examines where societies fall on the partnership-domination scale, and how this impacts equity, sustainability, peace, and how our brains develop. Combining cutting-edge findings from biological and social science, it explains regressions to strongman rule and other dangerous trends; re-examines our past (including societies that for millennia oriented toward partnership); and outlines actions to move us in this life-sustaining and enhancing direction.
Abstract:
Cover -- Nurturing Our Humanity -- Copyright -- Contents -- 1. Our Story -- 2. Evolution, Ideology, and Human Nature -- 3. Love, the Brain, and Becoming Human -- 4. The Biology of Experience -- 5. The Benefits of Partnership and the Costs of Domination -- 6. Two Alternate Social Possibilities -- 7. The Original Partnership Societies -- 8. Contracting or Expanding Consciousness -- 9. Touch, Intimacy, and Sexuality in Partnership and Domination Environments -- 10. Love, Violence, and Socialization in Partnership and Domination Environments -- 11. The Real Culture Wars -- 12. A New Beginning -- Acknowledgments -- Bibliography -- Index.
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