The story of human evolution that we’ve been commonly told is one built on the shoulders of male heroism, competition and dominance, but what if it isn’t the whole story? This book tells the story of women’s evolution.

In The Evolutionary Journey of Woman: From the Goddess to Integral Feminism Dr Sarah Nicholson retraces women’s steps and finds the rich contributions they have made to the chronicled stages of Western history, such as the creation and use of crucial material tools, that have been lost from the historical record. This book upsets the classical notion of man the hunter and woman the gatherer, presenting instead shared tasks and group hunts for small game. Importantly, it locates a tipping point in the Mythic-Imperial age where the concurrent rise of cities under the rule of warring imperial families, food technologies that split essential work into male versus female tasks, the rise of male-centric religions, and civic laws locked gender dynamics into a cycle of inequity that became impossible to fully escape until the rise of the liberation movements in the 20th century.

The Evolutionary Journey of Woman looks towards a future that brings together and re-integrates women’s wisdom through establishing a spiritual lineage for women that begins all the way back in ancient Sumer with the goddess Inanna. Marrying the ancient wisdom traditions with adult developmental theory, this book charts a pathway towards the full spectrum of possibilities for women’s self-actualisation in the coming Integral age.