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Riane Eisler
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: July 22
Anthropologist
Historian
Human Rights Activist
Peace Researcher
Sociologist
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Vienna
Austria
Riane Tennenhaus Eisler
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While there were many factors in the 2016 election, from false news to voter suppression and Russian hacking, the question is why so many people responded to Donald Trump's demagoguery.
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there are only two basic ways of structuring the relations between the female and male halves of humanity. All societies are patterned on either a dominator model - in which human hierarchies are ultimately backed up by force or the threat of force - or a partnership model, with variations in between.
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Care work is still primarily done by women for free in families and for poverty wages in the market, and this is a major reason that worldwide women are the mass of the poor and the poorest of the poor.
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Can we really expect adequate funding for programs to clean up our environment and care for people's basic needs as long as the socially essential work of caretaking and cleaning is relegated to women for little or no pay?
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Obviously there is pain in childbirth. But giving birth is also a moment of awe and wonder, a moment when the true miracle of aliveness, and of a woman's amazing part in that miracle, is suddenly experienced in every cell of one's body. It is in that sense truly an altered state of consciousness.
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Many young people are hungry for new thinking. So I invite them to use the tools and other resources we have developed to accelerate the shift from domination to partnership.
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Nonviolent Communication is a powerful tool for peace and partnership. It shows us how to listen empathically and also communicate our authentic feelings and needs. Marshall Rosenberg has a genius for developing and teaching practical skills urgently needed for a less violent, more caring world.
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In sum, the struggle for our future is . . . the struggle between those who cling to patterns of domination and those working for a more equitable partnership world.
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[On the ancient Venus figurines:] If the central religious figure was a woman giving birth and not, as in our time, a man dying on a cross, it would not be unreasonable to infer that life and the love of life - rather than death and the fear of death - were dominant in society as well as art.
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The link between intimate violence in the home and the international violence of terrorism and war is as tightly bound together as the fingers of a clenched fist.
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We are rapidly moving into the post-industrial age, when we must redefine what is productive work, as more and more jobs are being replaced by automation, robotics, and artificial intelligence.
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We urgently need an integrated progressive political agenda if we are to have foundations for a more equitable, sustainable, caring world.
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Marshall Rosenberg has a genius for developing and teaching practical skills urgently needed for a less violent, more caring world.
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Women represent 70 percent of the 1.3 billion people in our world who live in absolute poverty. Consequently, as Joan Holmes, president of the Hunger Project, points out, any realistic efforts to change patterns of chronic hunger and poverty require changing traditions of discrimination against women.
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Contemporary nations such as Sweden, Norway, and Finland, where women are half of the national legislatures, have more caring policies, less violence, and more environmentally sustainable policies. These are connections we must pay attention to if we are to build a better future for us all.
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...gender relationships, which are tough for people to deal with, are key to whether a society orients to domination or partnership in all its relations.
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war and the 'war of the sexes' are neither divinely nor biologically ordained.
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For new ideas to be translated into new realities requires not only clarity of vision but also the opportunity to change old realities.
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to change our realities, we also have to change our myths. As history amply demonstrates, myths and realities go hand in hand.
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For Islamic fundamentalists male honor is equated with control over the women in a man's family - to the extent that killing a woman who makes her own sexual choices (like marrying without her father's consent) is considered honorable, rather than criminal.
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