Closing the Gap

Exploring the History of Gender Relations

Distributed for Amsterdam University Press

Cloth $13.50 ISBN: 9789053565742 Published September 2002 For sale only in the United States, its dependencies, the Philippines, and Canada

Today’s patriarchal societies have their roots in antiquity, a time when matrilineal societies gradually gave way to ancient civilizations in which men were granted more and more importance and power—and women were made not only subordinate, but also gradually separated from realms of the "male." In Closing the Gap,, Allerd Stikker argues that the male/female duality we still perceive has resulted in a loss of coherence and integrity for all people—and that only the unity and interdependence of the sexes can preserve a sustainable human society on our planet.