@article{433926,
      recid = {433926},
      author = {Shlain, Leonard.},
      title = {The alphabet versus the goddess : the conflict between  word and image /},
      publisher = {Viking,},
      address = {New York :},
      pages = {xiv, 464 p. :},
      year = {1998},
      abstract = {The author "proposes that alphabetic literacy--the process  of reading itself--fundamentally rewired the human brain,  with profound consequences for culture, history, and  religion. ... Shlain argues that, with the advent of  literacy, the very act of reading an alphabet reinforced  the brain's left hemisphere--linear, abstract,  predominantly masculine--at the expense of the  right--holistic, concrete, visual, feminine. ... [This  book] tracks the correlations between the rise and fall of  literacy and the changing status of women in society,  mythology, and religions throughout European history, and  in other cultures as well."--Jacket.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/433926},
}