Why an Invented Past Won’t Give Women a Future. By Cynthia Eller. Steinem had been speculating about the origins of the patriarchy as early as 1972 … The discovery of paternity, of sexual cause and childbirth effect, was as cataclysmic for society as, say, the discovery of fire or the shattering of the atom. Gradually, […]

by Gloria Steinem. If men had grown up seeing God portrayed only as Mother and She, would they feel an equal godliness within themselves?