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Riane Eisler Biography

Riane Tennenhaus Eisler (born July 22, 1931) is a cultural historian, systems scientist, educator, attorney, speaker, and author whose work on cultural transformation has inspired scholars and social activists. Her research has impacted many fields, including history, literature, philosophy, art, economics, psychology, sociology, education, organizational development, political science, and healthcare. Eisler was born in Vienna, fled from the Nazis with her parents to Cuba as a small child, and later emigrated to the United States. She obtained degrees in sociology and law from UCLA; taught pioneering classes on women and the law at UCLA; and now teaches in the graduate Transformative Leadership Program at the California Institute of Integral Studies. She is Editor in Chief of the Interdisciplinary Journal of Partnership Studies at the University of Minnesota and President of the Center for Partnership Studies, dedicated to research and education on the partnership model introduced by Eisler’s research.

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To heal ourselves we also have to heal society.

Heal, Society

I pray for a world where we live in partnership rather than domination; where "man's conquest of nature" is recognized as suicidal and sacrilegious; where power is no longer equated with the blade, but with the holy chalice: the ancient symbol of the power to give, nurture, enhance life. And I not only pray, but actively work, for the day when it will be so.

Live, Men, Peace, Pray, Suicidal, Symbol

When the status and power of women is greater so also is the nation’s general quality of life; when they are lower, so is the quality of life for all.

Greater, Life, Nations, Quality, Quality Of Life

The bad news is that the movement toward the partnership side of the social scale (and it is always a matter of degree, as no society is a pure partnership or domination system) has been fiercely resisted and countered by periodic regressions. So domination systems have rebuilt themselves in different forms - be they secular or religious, eastern or western, leftist or rightist.

Matter, Regression, Regressions, Religious, Society, Systems

If we are serious about breaking cycles of poverty, we have to change this (economy).

Change, Cycles, Economy, Poverty, Serious

Religion supports and perpetuates the social organization it reflects.

Organization, Perpetuates, Religion, Social, Support

For as long as human beings are forced to live in a system that at every turn impedes the fulfillment of their basic human needs - not only for love but for creative and spiritual expression - they will try to compensate for this in other ways, including the compulsive acquisition of ever more material goods.

Compensate, Expression, Including, Loss, Spiritual, System

We are rapidly moving into the post-industrial age, when we must redefine what is "productive" work, as more and more jobs are being replaced by automation, robotics, and artificial intelligence.

Intelligence, Jobs, Moving, Productive Work, Redefine

. . . gender relationships, which are tough for people to deal with, are key to whether a society orients to domination or partnership in all its relations.

Gender, Keys, Orients, People, Relations, Women

It is not coincidental that for so-called religious fundamentalists - whether they are Western or Eastern, Muslim or Christian - rigid male dominance and "holy wars" are priorities. Or that competing sects of the same religion, such as Sunni and Shia, are at each other's throats. In these cultures, women are rigidly controlled by men.

Christian, Religious, Rigidly, Same, Sects, War

This notion that man can, and should, have absolute dominion over the "chaotic" powers of nature and woman. . . is what ultimately lies behind man's famous "conquest of nature" - a conquest that is today puncturing holes in the earth's ozone layer, destroying our forests, polluting our air and water, and increasingly threatening the welfare, and even survival, of thousands of living species, including our own.

Living, Loss, Lying, Men, Survival, Threatening

Rather than being any longer a threat to the established androcratic order, Christianity became what practically all this earth's religions, launched in the name of spiritual enlightenment and freedom, have also become: a powerful way of perpetuating that order.

Christianity, Powerful, Spiritual, Way, Women

For both Adam Smith and Karl Marx the essential work of caring for people, starting in early childhood, was "just women's work" - and in their minds not even classified as "productive work. "

Adam, Caring, Classified, Essential, People, Productive Work

In sum, the struggle for our future is. . . the struggle between those who cling to patterns of domination and those working for a more equitable partnership world.

Cling, Future, Partnership, Patterns, Struggle, World

Nonviolent Communication is a powerful tool for peace and partnership. It shows us how to listen empathically and also communicate our authentic feelings and needs. Marshall Rosenberg has a genius for developing and teaching practical skills urgently needed for a less violent, more caring world.

Communication, Feelings, Needs, Powerful, Teaching

That both Muslim fundamentalists and the Christian right are today focusing their attempts to regain control in a rapidly changing world on frantic efforts to maintain control over women, particularly over women's sexuality. Moreover, given their mythologies about "holy wars," it is also understandable that they should use "divinely approved" violence to do so.

Christian, Fundamentalists, Right, War, Women, World

While there were many factors in the 2016 election, from false news to voter suppression and Russian hacking, the question is why so many people responded to Donald Trump's demagoguery.

2016, Demagoguery, News, People, Voters

At the core of every child is an intact human.

Children, Core, Human, Humans, Intact

Difference is not equated with superiority or inferiority, dominating or being dominated, being served or serving.

Difference, Differences, Inferiority, Serving

So many of the models of courage we've had, ones that are still taught to boys and girls, are about going out to slay the dragon, to kill. It's a courage that's born out of fear, anger, and hate. But there's this other kind of courage. It's the courage to risk your life, not in war, not in battle, not out of fear. . . but out of love and a sense of injustice that has to be challenged. It takes far more courage to challenge unjust authority without violence than it takes to kill all the monsters in all the stories told to children about the meaning of bravery.

Anger, Children, Girl, Hate, Life, Told

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