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The method of social analysis in the book is multidisciplinary in its study of relational dynamics.

No utopia is predicted rather, a way of structuring society in more peaceful, equitable, and sustainable ways is envisioned. Female values offer a partnership alternative with deep roots in the pre-Patriarchy paradigm of cultural evolution. Briefly her thesis is despite old narratives about an inherently flawed humanity, more and more evidence shows humanity is not doomed to perpetuate patterns of violence and oppression. The book is now in 26 foreign editions, including most European languages as well as Chinese, Japanese, Urdu, Korean, Arabic, Hebrew, and Turkish. These challenge conventional views about cultural evolution up to the time of the book's publication. The book closes with two contrasting future scenarios. She traces this tension in Western culture from prehistory to the present.

Eisler proposes tension between these two underlies the span of human cultural evolution.