Guest Speaker: Riane Eisler

August 05, 2011

Friday, 2:00 pm
Willow Room
Clark Commons, Marylhurst University
Free and open to the public.

The Power of Partnership: Towards a Caring Economics and Society

Eminent social scientist and peace, human rights, and environmental activist Riane Eisler first captured world attention with her international bestseller The Chalice and the Blade, which has changed the way millions of people view themselves and their role in the world.

Drawing from her compelling new book, The Real Wealth of Nations: Creating a Caring Economics, Dr. Eisler shows that behind our most pressing individual and social problems lies the failure of economic models and policies to value and support the most essential work: the work of caring and caregiving.

With the skill of a world-class therapist, she pierces through the smokescreens of prevailing myths, shows the powerful influence of our hidden system of gendered values, and lays out practical steps toward a way of living and making a living that is sustainable, equitable, and truly meets human needs.

The Real Wealth of Nations has been hailed by Archbishop Desmond Tutu as "a template for the better world we have been so urgently seeking," by Gloria Steinem as "revolutionary," by Peter Senge as "desperately needed," and by Jane Goodall as "a call for action."

Riane Eisler was born in Vienna, fled from the Nazis with her parents to Cuba, and later emigrated to the United States. Dr. Eisler is the only woman among 20 great thinkers including Hegel, Adam Smith, Marx, and Toynbee selected for inclusion in Macrohistory and Macrohistorians in recognition of the lasting importance of her work as a cultural historian and evolutionary theorist.

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.

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