Riane Eisler

The phenomenal bestseller, with more than 500,000 copies sold worldwide, now with a new epilogue from the author--The Chalice and the Blade has inspired a generation of women and men to envision a truly egalitarian society by exploring the legacy of the peaceful, goddess-worshipping cultures from our prehistoric past.

Our History, Our Future

The Chalice and the Blade

Riane Eisler shows us how history has consistently promoted the link between sex and violence—and how we can sever this link and move to a politics of partnership rather than domination in all our relations.

Sex, Myth, and the Politics of the Body--New Paths to Power and Love

Sacred Pleasure

From the author of the bestselling classic The Chalice and the Blade, The Real Wealth of Nations proposes a dramatic new economic model that could help resolve many of the most critical problems we face today, and offers concrete steps for putting this model into practice.Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations provided the first, most influential and lasting explanation of the workings of modern economics. But with his focus on "the market" as the best mechanism for producing and distributing the necessities of life, Smith's concepts only told part of the story, leading to flawed economic models that devalue activities that fall outside of the market's parameters of buying and selling. The real wealth of nations, Riane Eisler argues, is not merely financial, but includes the contributions of people and our natural environment. Here, Eisler goes beyond the market to reexamine economics from a larger perspective--and shows that we must give visibility and value to the socially andeconomically essential work of caring for people and the planet if we are to meet the enormous challenges we are facing. Most importantly, she provides practical proposals for new economic inventions--new measures, policies, rules, and practices--to bring about a caring economics that fulfills human needs."Eisler delivers another impressive work that's remarkably well referenced, well argued, insightful, and hopeful." (Publishers Weekly)

Creating a Caring Economics

The Real Wealth of Nations

Douglas P. Fry

Nurturing Our Humanity offers a new perspective on our personal and social options in today's world, showing how we can build societies that support our great human capacities for consciousness, caring, and creativity. It brings together findings--largely overlooked--from the natural and social sciences debunking the popular idea that we are hard-wired for selfishness, war, rape, and greed. Its groundbreaking new approach reveals connections between disturbing trends like climate change denial and regressions to strongman rule. Moving past right vs. left, religious vs. secular, Eastern vs. Western, and other familiar categories that do not include our formative parent-child and gender relations, it looks at where societies fall on the partnership-domination scale. On one end is the domination system that ranks man over man, man over woman, race over race, and man over nature. On the other end is the more peaceful, egalitarian, gender-balanced, and sustainable partnership system. Nurturing Our Humanity explores how behaviors, values, and socio-economic institutions develop differently in these two environments, documents how this impacts nothing less than how our brains develop, examines cultures from this new perspective (including societies that for millennia oriented toward partnership), and proposes actions supporting the contemporary movement in this more life-sustaining and enhancing direction. It shows how through today's ever more fearful, frenzied, and greed-driven technologies of destruction and exploitation, the domination system may lead us to an evolutionary dead end. A more equitable and sustainable way of life is biologically possible and culturally attainable: we can change our course.

How Domination and Partnership Shape Our Brains, Lives, and Future

Nurturing Our Humanity

Riane Tennenhaus Eisler

The author of Tomorrow's Children shows readers how to abandon a fear-based approach to relationships in favor of a model based on mutual respect and cooperation. Reprint.

Seven Relationships That Will Change Your Life

The Power of Partnership

Kadeh ve Kilic

de las diosas a los dioses: culturas pre-patriarcales

El cáliz y la espada

Riane Eislers Modell einer "Caring Economy" – einer "fürsorglichen Ökonomie" – ist ebenso kühn wie wegweisend und die Übersetzung ihres Ansatzes ins Deutsche längst überfällig. Eislers Buch, das erstmals 2007 unter dem Titel "The Real Wealth of Nations" in den USA veröffentlicht wurde und in zahlreiche Sprachen übersetzt ist, ist das Ergebnis einer jahrzehntelangen transdisziplinären Forschungsleistung. Es nimmt seinen Ausgang von der Frage, wie es sein kann, dass Menschen – trotz ihres kreativen Potenzials und ihrer Fähigkeit zur Empathie – in der Welt so viel Schaden anrichten. Schaden an sich selbst, anderen Menschen und der Umwelt. Eislers Antwort: An der Wurzel jeder Ökonomie, die Ungleichheit, Armut und Zerstörung produziert, ist eine Gesellschaft, die Frauen und die ihnen überantwortete Care-Arbeit abwertet. Jede progressive und nachhaltige Ökonomie, sei es eine Gemeinwohl- oder eine Postwachstumsökonomie, muss deswegen zuallererst diesen Bereich der Fürsorge für andere wieder in das ökonomische Denken hereinholen – sonst kann es keine Caring Economy geben. Eisler zeigt auf, wie ein solcher Wandel gesellschaftlich umsetzbar ist, auf politischer wie auf individueller Ebene.

Wege zu einer Caring Economy

Die verkannten Grundlagen der Ökonomie

Chalice and the Blade

The author of The Chalice and the Blade proposes a new economics based on care in this “impressive work that's . . . well argued, insightful and hopeful” (Publishers Weekly). Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations provided the first explanation of the workings of modern economics. But with his focus on "the market" as the best mechanism for producing and distributing the necessities of life, Smith's concepts only told part of the story, leading to flawed economic models that devalue activities that fall outside of the market's parameters of buying and selling. The real wealth of nations, Riane Eisler argues, is not merely financial, but includes the contributions of people and our natural environment. In The Real Wealth of Nations, Eisler reexamines economics from a larger perspective, showing that we must give visibility and value to the essential work of caring for people and the planet. Eisler proposes a new “caring economics” that recognizes the full spectrum of economic activities—from the life-sustaining activities of the household to the life-enriching activities of caregivers and communities, to the life-supporting processes of nature. Eisler reveals how current economic models are based on a deep-seated culture of patriarchy and domination. She then shows how human needs would be better served by economic models based on caring. Most importantly, she provides practical proposals for new measures, policies, rules, and practices to bring about a caring economics that fulfills human needs.

In the wake of the tragedy of the shootings in Littleton at Columbine High School and other killings of children by children, there is increasing recognition of the urgent need for a deep systemic reassessment of what we are teaching our children. Based on the multidisciplinary research conducted by Riane Eisler over three decades, Tomorrow's Children presents a new integrated model for education: the partnership model.This model is an outgrowth of the cultural transformation theory developed by Dr. Eisler in her classic work The Chalice and the Blade. In that book, Eisler identifies a continuum of patterns for structuring relations. At one end of the continuum is the partnership model, which embodies equity, environmental sustainability, multiculturalism, and gender-fairness. At the opposite end of the continuum is the dominator model, which has marred much of our civilization. This model emphasizes control, authoritarianism, violence, gender discrimination, and environmental destruction. Eisler also shows that we today stand at a crossroads, where a shift to the partnership end of the continuum is essential for human welfare, and possibly survival. A new kind of education system is required to effectuate this shift.Tomorrow's Children applies the partnership model to education from kindergarten to twelfth grade and beyond, providing practical guidance for educators, parents, and students. Rather than one more add-on to existing methods and curricula, it provides a systemic approach that offers a more accurate and hopeful picture of what being human means. The curriculum loom and learning tapestry Eisler presents in Tomorrow's Children integrate three primary components of teaching and learning: what Eisler calls partnership process, partnership structure, and partnership content. The book melds Eisler's research and the work of many progressive educators into a cohesive and compelling blueprint for the kind of proactive education children need to meet the challenges of the 21st century. As Nel Noddings, a noted professor of education from Stanford University, writes, “the adoption of a partnership model in both schools and the larger society is essential for human life to flourish.”

A Blueprint For Partnership Education In The 21st Century

Tomorrow's Children

Teddie M. Potter

Transforming Interprofessional Partnerships: A New Framework for Nursing and Partnership-Based Health Care provides nurses and other health care professionals tools to reexamine the current state of interdisciplinary partnerships in order to build a more effective, caring, and sustainable health care system. This comprehensive text will benefit nurses by defining and illustrating full partnership in practice, education, and research in order to improve communication and interprofessional collaboration.

Transforming Interprofessional Partnerships: A New Framework for Nursing and Partnership-Based Health Care, 2014 AJN Award Recipient

Sexo mitos y politica del cuerpo

la alternativa femenina

la mujer como fuerza en la historia

El caliz y la espada

Prólogo de Humberto Maturana. Prólogo de Humberto Maturana.

nuestra historia

El cáliz y la espada cuenta una nueva historia de nuestros orígenes culturales. Muestra que el conflicto y la guerra de los sexos no han sido ordenados ni divina ni biológicamente y demuestra que es posible un futuro mejor, firmemente arraigado en los inquietantes dramas de lo que sucedió en nuestro pasado. Eisler presenta un marco conceptual para estudiar los sistemas sociales con especial atención a cómo una sociedad construye roles y relaciones entre lo femenino y lo masculino. Basándose en evidencias arqueológicas, antropológicas e históricas, la autora nos habla de un mundo en que prevalecieron el equilibrio y la comunidad antes que el caos y la destrucción, argumentando que la humanidad, en su origen, no estaba centrada en la lucha y en la competencia, sino más bien en la inclusión y la participación.

De las diosas a los dioses: culturas pre-patriarcales

Based on the research that brought international recognition to Raine Eisler's groundbreaking work The Chalice and the Blade but addressing the world as it is today, The Power of Partnership offers inspiration and guidance for moving to the better lives we yearn for. Eisler offers us a new lens, a new paradigm, for seeing the world and living in it. The Partnership Model, which emphasizes mutual respect and a fundamental awareness of the sacredness of all life, creates a solid foundation for families, businesses, communities, and the world. In contrast, the suffocating paradigm that has guided much of recorded history — what Eisler calls the Domination Model — has led individuals and groups, acting out of fear, to oppress women, wage war, terrorize, and subjugate others. Using these simple yet far-reaching models, Eisler shows how political and personal relationships based on domination inevitably result in misery and violence, while those founded on partnership foster respect, love, and an explosion of creativity.

Seven Relationships that Will Change Your Life

Marshall B. Rosenberg

Addressing the need for a dynamic change in the formula schools use to mold their students, this groundbreaking guide provides a new approach to education that serves the lives of everyone in the learning community. By implementing the unique communication skills outlined, educators can promote cooperation and understanding and address many of the complex problems faced in the classroom. Teachers will learn new skills to increase student interest, achievement, and retention, as well as create a safe and supportive learning and working atmosphere. They are also given strategies for cultivating emotional intelligence, respect, authenticity, and empathy and are empowered to resolve conflict and prevent or defuse violence. The end result helps teachers rediscover the joy of teaching motivated students.

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