Malia: (What interested Malia in the project)Īmy: Thank you so much for being here! And with that, let’s dive in. So Malia, can you tell us a little bit about yourself? Your background and what you like to do and your point of view that you bring to the text?Īmy: Can I also ask you what interested you in the project? Malia and I are neighbors here in California, and Malia, I’m thrilled that you joined this project because you are such a brilliant thinker and an amazing person.

This book was published in 1987, and along with other female archaeologists working at the time, Eisler proposed theories about humans’ prehistoric past that caused quite a stir in the field of archaeology and gave rise to a spiritual “goddess” movement within feminism in the 1980’s and 90’s.īut before we dive in, I’m excited to introduce my first reading partner, Malia Morris. Today’s episode will be a discussion of the book The Chalice and the Blade, by Riane Eisler. Her book on economics, The Real Wealth of Nations: Creating a Caring Economics, was hailed by Archbishop Desmond Tutu as “a template for the better world we have been so urgently seeking.Amy: Welcome to Breaking Down Patriarchy. Department of State, and Congressional briefings, and has spoken at corporations and universities worldwide on applications of the partnership model introduced in her work.Įisler was a child refugee from Nazi Europe, and that experience eventually led to her multidisciplinary re-examination of human societies and human possibilities.

Eisler is president of the Center for Partnership Systems(CPS), dedicated to research and education, Editor-in-Chief of the Interdisciplinary Journal of Partnership Studies, an online peer-reviewed journal at the University of Minnesota that was inspired by her work, keynotes conferences nationally and internationally, has addressed the United Nations General Assembly, the U.S. Her newest work, Nurturing Our Humanity: How Domination and Partnership Shape Our Brains, Lives, and Future, co-authored with anthropologist Douglas Fry (Oxford University Press, 2019), shows how to construct a more equitable, sustainable, and less violent world based on partnership rather than domination.ĭr. She is internationally known for her bestseller The Chalice and The Blade: Our History, Our Future, now in 57 U.S.

Riane Eisler is a social systems scientist, cultural historian, futurist, and attorney whose research, writing, and speaking have transformed the lives of people worldwide.

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