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Building a Caring Economy and Society* Beyond Capitalism, Socialism, and Other Old Isms
CADMUS, Volume I, No. 6, May 2013, 49-65 Building a Caring Economy and Society* Beyond Capitalism, Socialism, and Other Old Isms Riane Eisler President, Center for Partnership Studies; Fellow, World Academy of Art and Science Abstract Old economic approaches are not capable of meeting our economic, environmental, and social challenges. To effectively meet these challenges, we need a perspective that goes beyond the conventional capitalism vs. socialism debate. This paper places economic valua- tions in their social context from the perspective of two new social categories. It describes building blocks for a new paradigm for economics, focusing on new measurements, policies, and practices that support caring for people, starting in early childhood, as well as caring for our natural environment. All around us are signs that old approaches are not capable of adapting to new circum- stances. While many people still talk about returning to normal, there is growing recognition that we actually need a whole new way of thinking about economics and society.1 But what should our direction be at this time of extreme social, environmental, and eco- nomic challenges? What do we need as we shift from the industrial to the post-industrial knowledge/service era? How do we build a more equitable and sustainable world? This paper addresses these questions. Its point of departure is a key issue for our future: what kind of economic system helps, or prevents, children from developing their full poten- tials for consciousness, caring, and creativity – the capacities that are essential in the new knowledge-service era; the capacities that make us fully human? 1. -
Building a Caring Democracy: Four Cornerstones for an Integrated Progressive Agenda Riane Eisler Center for Partnership Studies
Interdisciplinary Journal of Partnership Studies Volume 4 Article 2 Issue 1 Winter, Caring Democracy 3-2-2017 Building a Caring Democracy: Four Cornerstones for an Integrated Progressive Agenda Riane Eisler Center for Partnership Studies Follow this and additional works at: http://pubs.lib.umn.edu/ijps Recommended Citation Eisler, Riane (2017) "Building a Caring Democracy: Four Cornerstones for an Integrated Progressive Agenda," Interdisciplinary Journal of Partnership Studies: Vol. 4: Iss. 1, Article 2. Available at: http://pubs.lib.umn.edu/ijps/vol4/iss1/2 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 License The Interdisciplinary Journal of Partnership Studies is published by the University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing. Authors retain ownership of their articles, which are made available under the terms of a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial license (CC BY-NC 4.0). Eisler: Building a Caring Democracy BUILDING A CARING DEMOCRACY: FOUR CORNERSTONES FOR AN INTEGRATED PROGRESSIVE AGENDA Riane Eisler, JD, PhD (hon) Abstract Why do people vote for “strong” leaders who condone violence, debase women, and stoke fear and scapegoating? If free elections alone are not the answer, what will it take to build a caring democracy that promotes the wellbeing and full development of all people? This paper examines these questions from a perspective that takes into account the connection between politics and economics, on one hand, and what children first experience and observe in their family and other intimate relations, on the other. It describes the study of relational dynamics, a multidisciplinary method of analysis that reveals social categories that transcend conventional ones: the partnership system and the domination system. -
Read More About Riane Eisler?
KEYNOTES, LECTURES, AND CONFERENCE PAPERS Eisler keynotes conferences worldwide. She has given over 600 presentations at conferences, universities, corporations, and governmental and nongovernmental agencies in the United States, Canada, Australia, China, India, Latin America (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, and Mexico), and Europe (Austria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Finland, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Italy, Spain, and Sweden). Examples include: Dr. Eisler has addressed the United Nations General Assembly and the U.S. Department of State, has headlined Congressional briefing, and spoken in Germany at the invitation of Prof. Rita Suessmuth, President of the Bundestag (the German Parliament) and Daniel Goeudevert (Chair of Volkswagen International, who wrote the Foreword to the German Edition of Eisler’s bestseller The Chalice and the Blade). She was invited to Greece by Margarita Papandreou (the First Lady). She was invited to speak in the Czech Republic by Vaclav Havel (President of the Czech Republic) and in Colombia by the Mayor of Bogota. She keynoted the CoNGO conference of NGOs affiliated with the United Nations in New York, and was a plenary speaker at the NGO Forum of the U.N. Decade for Women Conference in Nairobi, Kenya and the 2004 Barcelona Women’s Forum, keynoted the Seventh Annual Conference of State Governors’ Spouses, and addressed the Second Centennial Parliament of World Religions in Chicago. In 2018, Eisler gave the Master’s Closing of Congress Speech: “Contracting or Expanding Consciousness: Foundations for Partnership and Peace” at the Congreso Futuro (Futures Congress), sponsored by the President of Chile, in both Santiago de Chile and Valparaíso, and spoke at the Femme Summit (Women’s Summit) in Parque Majadas de Pirque, Chile; gave webinars with leaders in the men’s movement such as Promundo’s Gary Barker and in faith communities such as Julie Owens. -
Human Possibilities: an Integrated Systems Approach Riane Eisler a a Center for Partnership Studies , Pacific Grove , California , USA Published Online: 12 Jul 2013
This article was downloaded by: [California Institute of Integral Studies] On: 12 July 2013, At: 11:08 Publisher: Routledge Informa Ltd Registered in England and Wales Registered Number: 1072954 Registered office: Mortimer House, 37-41 Mortimer Street, London W1T 3JH, UK World Futures: The Journal of Global Education Publication details, including instructions for authors and subscription information: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/gwof20 Human Possibilities: An Integrated Systems Approach Riane Eisler a a Center for Partnership Studies , Pacific Grove , California , USA Published online: 12 Jul 2013. To cite this article: Riane Eisler (2013) Human Possibilities: An Integrated Systems Approach, World Futures: The Journal of Global Education, 69:4-6, 269-289 To link to this article: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02604027.2013.803361 PLEASE SCROLL DOWN FOR ARTICLE Taylor & Francis makes every effort to ensure the accuracy of all the information (the “Content”) contained in the publications on our platform. However, Taylor & Francis, our agents, and our licensors make no representations or warranties whatsoever as to the accuracy, completeness, or suitability for any purpose of the Content. Any opinions and views expressed in this publication are the opinions and views of the authors, and are not the views of or endorsed by Taylor & Francis. The accuracy of the Content should not be relied upon and should be independently verified with primary sources of information. Taylor and Francis shall not be liable for any losses, actions, claims, proceedings, demands, costs, expenses, damages, and other liabilities whatsoever or howsoever caused arising directly or indirectly in connection with, in relation to or arising out of the use of the Content. -
The Power of Partnership: Inspiring Transformative Leadership
Volume 19 Issue 6 November 17, 2005 The Power of Partnership: Inspiring Transformative Leadership By Riane Eisler Editor’s Note: Academy Fellow Riane Eisler has worked as a cultural historian and evolutionary theorist over the last 20 years. She introduced the Partnership Model and the Domination Model 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 pio- neering work in human rights expanded the focus of international organizations to include the rights of women and children. Last week she delivered the closing keynote address to 1,800 people at the 10th Annual Conference of the International Coaches Federation, the largest profes- sional association for business and life coaches. This speech introduces the audience to the dialectic between the Domination and Partnership models of society, and speaks to the role of business leaders in fostering a more humane and balanced approach to civilization. Leaders often get derailed by the assumption that to be a leader means to control and dominate. The essence of my work over three decades is to support people in the full expression of who they really are. My study, my research, my writing have identified two underlying possibilities for organizing relationships, belief, and structures. I call them the Partnership Model and the Domination Model. We are in a unique position to help people understand these possibilities so we can make an essential shift in our time: the shift from Domination and toward Partnership. This is essential not only for business, particularly, as we are en- tering the post-Industrial era at the speed of light, but also when a mixture of technology and the Domination Model can literally take us to an evolutionary dead end. -
The Real Wealth of Nations: Creating a Caring Economics
an excerpt from The Real Wealth of Nations: Creating a Caring Economics by Riane Eisler Published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers Contents INTRODUCTION Reasons to Care 1 CHAPTER ONE We Need a New Economics 7 CHAPTER TWO Economics Through a Wider Lens 27 CHAPTER THREE It Pays to Care—in Dollars and Cents 47 CHAPTER FOUR The Economic Double Standard 69 CHAPTER FIVE Connecting the Dots 93 CHAPTER SIX The Economics of Domination 117 CHAPTER SEVEN The Economics of Partnership 139 CHAPTER EIGHT Technology, Work, and the Postindustrial Era 165 CHAPTER NINE Who We Are and Where We Are 187 CHAPTER TEN The Caring Revolution 213 NOTES 237 BIBLIOGRAPHY 277 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 293 INDEX 295 ABOUT THE AUTHOR 315 ABOUT THE CENTER FOR PARTNERSHIP STUDIES 317 vii INTRODUCTION Reasons to Care Much of my life has been a quest. This quest started in my w childhood, when my parents and I fled my native Vienna from the Nazis. It continued in the slums of Havana, where we found refuge, and later in the United States, where I grew up. It was a quest for answers to a basic question: Why, when we humans have such a great capacity for caring, consciousness, and creativity, has our world seen so much cruelty, insensitivity, and destructiveness? In the course of my quest I looked for answers in many areas, from psychology, history, and anthropology to education, economics, and politics. And again and again I came back to economics because I saw that we have to change present economic systems if we, our children, and future generations are to survive and thrive. -
The Real Wealth of Nations:Creating a Caring Economics
BESTSELLING AUTHOR RIANE EISLER INTRODUCES THE REAL WEALTH OF NATIONS:CREATING A CARING ECONOMICS Dr. Riane Eisler first captured world attention with her bestselling book, The Chalice and the Blade. With her new book, The Real Wealth of Nations: Creating a Caring Economics (Berrett-Koehler Publishers; ISBN-13: 9781576753880, $24.95, April 2007), she offers a new way of thinking by transforming “the dismal science of economics” into a practical plan for solving global warming, poverty, and terrorism. Hailed by Archbishop Desmond Tutu as “a template for the better world we have been so urgently seeking,” by business guru Peter Senge as “desperately needed,” by Gloria Steinem as “revolutionary,’ and by Jane Goodall as “a call to action,” The Real Wealth of Nations proposes a “caring economics” that is more cost-effective, humane, and sustainable. “My work has been moving more and more toward practical solutions,” said Eisler. “Present economic systems, both capitalist and socialist, aren’t solving our problems – from chronic poverty and environmental devastation, to the loss of good jobs in the US and the stress put on families by the absence of decent parental leave. We have to start with basics: that the real wealth of nations isn’t financial; it’s the contributions of people and nature.” The Real Wealth of Nations details a new strategy for an economic system that gives visibility and value to the most essential human work: the life-sustaining work of caring and caregiving whether it’s done in the home or the workplace Eisler cites powerful statistics regarding the real value of the unpaid work in households. -
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Feminist Periodicals
. The U n vers ty o f w sconsln System Feminist Periodicals A current listing of contents WOMEN'S STUDIES Volume 20, Number I, Spring 2000 Published by Phyllis Holman Weisbard LIBRARIAN Women's Studies Librarian F minist CD Peri 1 Is A current listing of contents Volume 20, Number 1 Spring 2000 Periodical literature is the cutting edge of women's scholarship, feminist theory, and much of women's culture. Feminist Periodicals: A Current Listing of Contents is pUblished by the Office of the University of Wisconsin System Women's Studies Librarian on aquarterly basis with the intentof increasing pUblicawarenessoffeminist periodicals. It is our hope that Feminist Periodicals will serve several purposes: to keep the reader abreast of current topics in feminist literature; to increase readers' familiarity with awide spectrum offeminist periodicals; and to provide the requisite bibliographic information should a reader wish to sUbscribe to ajournal or to obtain a particular article at her library or through interlibrary loan. (Users will need to be aware of the limitations of the new copyright law with regard to photocopying of copyrighted materials.) Table ofcontents pages from current issues of major feministjournals are reproduced in each issue of Feminisf Periodicals, preceded by a comprehensive annotated listing of all journals we have selected. As publication schedules vary enormously, not every periodical will have table of contents pages reproduced in each issue of FP. The annotated listing provides the following information on each journal: 1. Year of first publication. 2. Frequency of pUblication. 3. U.S. subscription price(s). 4. Subscription address. 5. -
PROTECTING CHILDREN: from RHETORIC to GLOBAL ACTION Riane Eisler, JD
Volume 5, Issue 1 Winter pubs.lib.umn.edu/ijps PROTECTING CHILDREN: FROM RHETORIC TO GLOBAL ACTION Riane Eisler, JD, PhD (hon.) Abstract This paper looks at the pandemic of abuse and violence against children worldwide, and examines the historical and cultural roots of these systemic human violations. It proposes strategies to better safeguard children globally, including education and a legal mechanism to hold government officials – national and local – accountable when they fail to protect children from abuse, enslavement, murder, and other crimes, and all too often profit from them. Keywords: Children, violence, abuse, human rights, child marriage, child sexual abuse, sex trade, femicide, girl children, domination system, partnership system, Crimes against Humanity, Rome Statute, R2P. Copyright: ©2018 Eisler. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Noncommercial Attribution license (CC BY-NC 4.0), which allows for unrestricted noncommercial use, distribution, and adaptation, provided that the original author and source are credited. Citation: Eisler, R. (2018). Protecting children: From rhetoric to global action. Interdisciplinary Journal of Partnership Studies, 5(1): Article 7. https://doi.org/10.24926/ijps.v5i1.1125 When political candidates proclaim that children are our most precious asset, kiss babies, and feature family photos in ads, we assume they care about children. But when elected, many of these same politicians fail to support laws to protect children from violence and abuse; do not enforce such laws where they exist; and are even complicit Produced by University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing, 2018 1 Interdisciplinary Journal of Partnership Studies, Vol. 5 [2018], Iss. -
A Show of One's Own: the History of Television and the Single Girl in America from 1960
A Show of One's Own: The History of Television and the Single Girl in America from 1960. by Erin Kimberly Brown A thesis presented to the University of Waterloo in fulfillment of the thesis requirement for the degree of Master of Arts in History Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, 2015 © Erin Kimberly Brown 2015 Author's Declaration I hereby declare that I am the sole author of this thesis. This is a true copy of the thesis, including any final revisions, as accepted by my examiners. I understand that my thesis may be made electronically available to the public. ii Abstract This thesis analyzes the image of the single girl in American history from 1960. The changes made to her lifestyle through technology, politics, education and the workforce are discussed, as is the impact made by the second-wave feminist movement. The evolution seen is traced in detail through five pivotal television series (That Girl, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Murphy Brown, Ally McBeal and Sex and the City) that displayed to millions of viewers across the nation how unmarried women were building their lives and the challenges that they experienced. These programs were an important part of their female audience's life, highlighting what was possible to achieve, yet they were not always greeted with the highest regard. Judgment of the single women's lifestyle was seen from writers and politicians who commented on their unmarried status, their sexuality and pregnancies outside of marriage. Even television networks and producers would, at times, be unconvinced of the single female's choices. -
Associate Reflections
45th Anniversary 1972 - 2017 Associate Reflections created by Arya Boris 45 Anniversary Associate Reflections I started working with the Women’s Institute for Freedom of the Press in 1974, editing the first edition of the Directory of Women’s Media and indexing Media Report to Women. The following year I officially relocated to work full time with the founder, Donna Allen, my mother. I had the privilege of becoming the director of WIFP in 1985 and working closely with Donna in WIFP for twenty-five years. WIFP formed the Associate Network in 1977. As a celebration of our 45th year, I asked some of our long-time Associates to reflect on what WIFP has meant to them. I suggested a few questions they could respond to if they chose: 1. What has WIFP meant to you (at any or several points in our 45 years)? 2. What impact has WIFP made in its decades of existence? 3. What motivated you to become an Associate? 4. What is needed for women in media (and in general) to make more progress? 5. What is needed to bring us closer to media democracy? (WIFP is once again working on Net Neutrality.) I also asked them to say something about themselves. These are the thoughtful and kind reflections. Martha Allen, Director Susan J. Kaufman, PhD It was 1977 when I first joined WIFP, and I was working in radio in Upper Michigan. I read about the Houston Women’s Conference organizers calling for journalists to work on a publication. I called your mother. The next thing I knew I was helping to cover the U.N.