The Creation of Patriarchy from the library of the National Women's History Project  by By Gerda Leaner

A radical reconceptualization of Western civilization that makes gender central to its analysis.  One of the most noted historians, Gerda Lerner, argues that male dominance over women is not "natural" or biological, but the product of an historical development begun in the second millennium B.C. in the Ancient Near East.

Published in 1986 by Oxford University Press inc., paper, 300 pages, 1986