Rebalancing the World: Why Women Belong and Men Compete and How to Restore the Ancient Equilibrium

By Carol Lee Flinders

Book Overview

For all of our progress, the world stubbornly retains a male-dominated, competitive streak. Certainly the emphasis our culture places on enterprise has given us much, but what have we sacrificed along the way? Carol Lee Flindersargues that the more ancient values of Belonging (mutuality, cooperation, and generosity), traditionally associated with women, have been subsumed by thoseof Enterprise (individualism, competitiveness, and materialism), associated with men. In the lives of visionaries, artists, and mystics such as the Buddha, BaalShem Tov, Teresa of Avila, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, John Muir, and Martin Luther King Jr., Flinders offers models for a new kind of balance. Rebalancing the World urges us to incorporate the values we are missing in our lives for the sense of wholeness we all seek.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0062517376
• ISBN13: 9780062517371
• Release Date: September 2003
• Publisher: HarperOne
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.3" x 7.9"

Customer Reviews

a kinder, gentler feminism

Feminist takes on how women lost power usually have an angry edge. Carol Lee Flinders' book covers some of the same ground, but her point of view is reflective and spiritual. She believes, as many of us do, that we need the strengths of both men and women to make our world work, and that each of us needs the parts of ourselves that we might have suppressed because they weren't feminine, or masculine, enough. This isn't a scientific treatise, and Flinders doesn't attempt to prove things so much as offer new ways of looking at where we are, and where we might go from here.