Italian Partnership Studies Group, Journal & Books
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Partnership Studies Group
Inspired by the seminal anthropological and socio-cultural work of Riane Eisler, Antonella Riem and a group of researchers founded the Partnership Studies Group in 1998. It is an active community of scholars based at the University of Udine, with a series of interconnected partners all over the world.
Online Journal
Le Simplegadi — International on-line refereed journal of modern languages and literatures.
Books
The Rose and the Lotus: Partnership Studies in the Works of Raja Rao by Stefano Mercanti (Rodopi, 2009) Raja Rao, one of the founding figures of Indian English literature, is re-examined in this comprehensive study of his fiction that contradicts the long-held perception of Raja Rao as a mere metaphysical writer and the true bard of quintessential Indianness, projected by many critics of the first Commonwealth generation over three decades. Stefano Mercanti posits Rao’s fiction in terms of its dialogic interaction – the "partnership" – between Western and Eastern cultural traditions and demonstrates how it evolves during the course of his oeuvre on both the philosophical and the political level.
The Goddess Awakened: Partnership Studies in Literatures, Language and Education, edited by Riem Natale, Luisa Conti Camaiora, and Maria Renata Dolce (2007) — This book brings together the proceedings of the International Conference entitled The Goddess Awakened: Partnership Studies in Education and World Literatures in English (University of Udine, April 19-22, 2007), which hosted internationally renowned writers and scholars in Education and Language Studies from Italy, Australia, India, South Africa and the United States of America.
The Art of Partnership: Essays on Literature, Culture, Language and Education towards a Cooperative Paradigm (2003), edited by Professors Antonella Riem and 
Roberto Albarea — The book (which includes contributions by Riane Eisler and David Loye) was inspired by a conference held at the University of Udine, Italy on partnership education. Antonella Riem Natale and Roberto Albarea hope that it will foster discussion among students, colleagues, and scholars worldwide, thus enabling us all to achieve a greater balance and cooperation, in the spirit of difference in equality.
