Riane Eisler
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Riane Eisler is an Austrian-born American academic. Born in Vienna, her family fled from the Nazis to Cuba when she was a child; she later emigrated to the United States. She has degrees in sociology and law from the University of California. She is an attorney, legal scholar, author of many popular books and articles, and president of the Center for Partnership Studies. Eisler has been described as a cultural historian, an evolutionary theorist, and a social thinker by her supporters.
She coined the term dominator culture to describe the androcracy (governance of social organization dominated by males) of Indo-European and other societies, versus what she proposes was a partnership model (as distinct from matriarchy) for the social organization of Neolithic Europe. To support the idea that neither men nor women dominated one another in the distant past, Eisler cites archeological evidence from southeast Europe, especially Crete, drawing much from the research of Marija Gimbutas and Vere Gordon Childe. Her hypothesis also relies strongly on the Gnostic Gospels and on the history portrayed by the Ancient Greek poet Hesiod.
Riane Eisler inspired Professor Min Jiayin of the Institute of Philosophy of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences to edit The Chalice and the Blade in Chinese Culture, published in 1995 by China Social Sciences Publishing House.
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[edit] Center for Partnership Studies
The Center for Partnership Studies (CPS), located in Pacific Grove, CA., was established in 1987 for the purpose of researching, developing, and disseminating education on the partnership model as developed by Riane Eisler.
[edit] Books
- 1987 - The Chalice and The Blade: Our History, Our Future. New York. Harper & Row. ISBN 0-06-250289-1
- 1996 - Sacred Pleasure: Sex, Myth, and the Politics of the Body. San Francisco. Harper. ISBN 0-06-250283-2
- 2000 - Tomorrow's Children: A Blueprint for Partnership Education in the 21st Century
- 2002 - The Power of Partnership: Seven Relationships that will Change Your Life
- 2004 - Educating for a Culture of Peace
