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Riane Eisler, Ph.D., J.D.
Riane Eisler, Ph.D, J.D., is an eminent social scientist, attorney, and social activist best known as the author of the international bestseller The Chalice and The Blade: Our History, Our Future, now in 22 languages, including most European languages and Chinese, Russian, Korean, Hebrew, Arabic, and Japanese. Her newest book, The Real Wealth of Nations: Creating a Caring Economics, hailed by Archbishop Desmond Tutu as “a template for the better world we have been so urgently seeking,” proposes a new approach to economics that gives visibility and value to the most essential human work: the work of caring for people and the planet.
Dr. Eisler is a consultant to business and governments on the application of the partnership model introduced in her work. International venues have included: Germany at the invitation of Professor Rita Suessmuth, President of the Bundestag (the German Parliament) and Daniel Goeudevert (Chair of Volkswagen International); Colombia, at the invitation of the Mayor of Bogota; and the Czech Republic, at the invitation of Vaclav Havel (President of the Czech Republic).
Her pioneering work in human rights expanded the focus of international organizations to include the rights of women and children. Her research has impacted many fields, including history, sociology, and education. She is co-founder of the Spiritual Alliance to Stop Intimate Violence (SAIV), and president of the Center for Partnership Studies, www.partnershipway.org, dedicated to research and education. 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.
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 as a cultural historian and evolutionary theorist. |
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