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Riane Eisler 
RIANE EISLER
is an eminent social scientist, attorney, and social activist
best known as author of the international bestseller The
Chalice and The Blade: Our History, Our Future, hailed
by Princeton anthropologist Ashley Montagu as "the most
important book since Darwin's Origin of Species
and by novelist Isabel Allende as “one of those magnificent key
books that can transform us.” This was the first book reporting
the results of Eisler’s study of human cultures spanning 30,000
years, and is in 22 languages, including most European languages
and Chinese, Russian, Korean, Hebrew, and Japanese. Riane Eisler was born in Vienna, fled from the Nazis with her parents to Cuba, and later emigrated to the United States. She obtained degrees in sociology and law from the University of California, taught pioneering classes on women and the law at UCLA, and is a founding member of the General Evolution Research Group (GERG) and the Alliance for a Caring Economy (ACE), and a fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science and World Business Academy. She is also co-founder of the Spiritual Alliance to Stop Intimate Violence (SAIV), www.saiv.net. She is president of the Center for Partnership Studies, www.partnershipway.org., dedicated to research and education. Dr. Eisler has received many honors, including selection as the only woman among twenty great thinkers including Hegel, Adam Smith, Marx, and Toynbee for inclusion in Macrohistory and Macrohistorians in recognition of the lasting importance of her work. Her books include the award-winning The Power of Partnership and Tomorrow’s Children, as well as Sacred Pleasure, a daring reexamination of sexuality and spirituality, and Women, Men, and the Global Quality of Life, which statistically documents the key role of the status of women in a nation’s general quality of life. She is the author of over 200 essays and articles in publications ranging from Behavioral Science, Futures, Political Psychology, and The UNESCO Courier to Brain and Mind, Yes!, the Human Rights Quarterly, The International Journal of Women's Studies, and the World Encyclopedia of Peace. Dr. Eisler is sought after to keynote conferences worldwide, and is a consultant to business and government on applications of the partnership model introduced in her work. International venues have included Germany at the invitation of Prof. Rita Suessmuth, President of the Bundestag (the German Parliament) and Daniel Goeudevert (Chair of Volkswagen International); Greece at the invitation of Margarita Papandreou (the First Lady); Colombia, invited by the Mayor of Bogota; and the Czech Republic, invited by Vaclav Havel (President of the Czech Republic). Based on her work as a cultural historian and evolutionary theorist over the last twenty years, Riane Eisler introduced the partnership system and the domination system as two underlying possibilities for structuring beliefs, institutions, and relations that transcend categories such as religious vs. secular, right vs. left, and technologically developed or undeveloped. Her pioneering work in human rights expanded the focus of international organizations to include the rights of women and children, and her work in economics introduces a new holistic model for government and business. Her research has impacted many fields, including history, sociology, and education; for example, it inspired the Montessori Foundation to start a Center for Partnership Education. She is widely recognized as a visionary pragmatist, whose books, speeches, and leadership have inspired people worldwide. Her newest book, The Real Wealth of Nations: Creating a Caring Economics, proposes a new economics that gives visibility and value to the most essential human work: the work of caring for people and planet. To hear Dr. Eisler speak in person see her Speaking Schedule and see a list of her pastNational and International Speaking Engagements.
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