Author Spotlight: Riane Eisler
Background Information (schooling, credentials, etc.)
Riane Eisler was born in Vienna (1937), 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, Los Angeles taught pioneering classes on women and the law at UCLA, and now teaches in the graduate Transformative Leadership Program at the California Institute of Integral Studies. She has received many honors, including honorary Ph.D. degrees, the Alice Paul ERA Education Award, and the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation’s 2009 Distinguished Peace Leadership Award, and is included in the award-winning book Great Peacemakers as one of 20 leaders for world peace, along with Mahatma Gandhi, Mother Teresa, and Martin Luther King.
Published works (Provide Links)
Riane Eisler has written over 300 articles in publications ranging from Behavioral Science, Futures, Political Psychology, The Christian Science Monitor, Challenge, and The UNESCO Courier to Brain and Mind, the Human Rights Quarterly, The International Journal of Women's Studies, and the World Encyclopedia of Peace. Her earlier books, are from her legal experience, which include Dissolution and The Equal Rights Handbook, and are widely used in the campaign for the Equal Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Other books draw from her multidisciplinary research, which include the award-winning The Power of Partnership and Tomorrow’s Children, as well as Sacred Pleasure, a reexamination of sexuality and spirituality, and Women, Men, and the Global Quality of Life, documenting the key role of women’s status in a nation’s general quality of life.
-The Chalice and The Blade: Our History, Our Future
http://www.partnershipway.org/learn-more/partnership-books/the-chalice-and-the-blade
-The Real Wealth of Nations: Creating a Caring Economics
(Her most recent book, no link provided)
Her compassion for people has led her to pioneering work in human rights that has expanded the focus of international organizations to include the rights of women and children. Her research on systemic cultural transformation has impacted many fields, including history, sociology, economics, psychology, and education. Also, her experience with the Holocaust inspired her to try and understand why such horrible things can happen and how events such as the Holocaust can be prevented in the future.
Riane has had a powerful response from very diverse groups around the world because her common theme of caring helps people “connect the dots.” She is a desired keynote speaker to conferences worldwide, and is a consultant to business and government on applications of the partnership model which is introduced in her work.
