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Nurturing Our Humanity offers a new perspective on our personal and social options in today's world, showing how we can build societies that support our great human capacities for consciousness, caring, and creativity. It brings together findings--largely overlooked--from the natural and social sciences debunking the popular idea that we are hard-wired for selfishness, war, rape, and greed. Its groundbreaking new approach reveals connections between disturbing trends like climate change denial and regressions to strongman rule. Moving past right vs. left, religious vs. secular, Eastern vs. Western, and other familiar categories that do not include our formative parent-child and gender relations, it looks at where societies fall on the partnership-domination scale. On one end is the domination system that ranks man over man, man over woman, race over race, and man over nature. On the other end is the more peaceful, egalitarian, gender-balanced, and sustainable partnership system. Nurturing Our Humanity explores how behaviors, values, and socio-economic institutions develop differently in these two environments, documents how this impacts nothing less than how our brains develop, examines cultures from this new perspective (including societies that for millennia oriented toward partnership), and proposes actions supporting the contemporary movement in this more life-sustaining and enhancing direction. It shows how through today's ever more fearful, frenzied, and greed-driven technologies of destruction and exploitation, the domination system may lead us to an evolutionary dead end. A more equitable and sustainable way of life is biologically possible and culturally attainable: we can change our course

Riane Eisler introduces a transformative economic model that emphasizes the importance of human and environmental contributions beyond traditional market values. By critiquing Adam Smith's narrow focus on market mechanisms, she argues that true wealth encompasses the essential work of caring for people and the planet. The book presents practical proposals for new measures and policies aimed at fostering a "caring economics" that addresses critical global challenges. Eisler's well-researched insights offer a hopeful vision for a more inclusive and sustainable economic future.

Eisler exposes the economic double standard that devalues anything stereotypically associated with women and femininity, and shows how this distorts not only a society's values but individual's lives as well.

Social scientist Eisler shows that the great problems of our time--such as poverty, inequality, war, terrorism, and environmental degradation--are due largely to flawed economic systems that set the wrong priorities and misallocate resources. Conventional economic models fail to value and support the most essential human work--caring and caregiving--so basic human needs are increasingly neglected, despair and ecological destruction escalate, and the resulting social tensions fuel many of the conflicts we face today. Eisler offers a bold reformulation: a caring economics that transcends traditional categories like capitalist and socialist and offers enormous economic and social benefits. She describes how to put this model into practice through new government and business policies and practices, innovative economic indicators that incorporate caregiving activities, and new social structures. And she lays out practical steps we can take to move towards a society based on this more humane economic model.--From publisher description

The Power of Partnership is filled with powerful examples and extensive research that shows how a simple shift in perspective can help us break free of domination’s shackles and discover the power and joy of partnership in every life relationship — and the book covers them all, including our relationship with ourselves, our loved ones, our co-workers, our community, our nation, and our world, as well as our relationship with nature and with spirit.The book is visionary yet practical, providing solutions that go beyond conservative or liberal, religious or secular, communist or capitalist, worker or employer, male or female. The Power of Partnership provides us with the necessary tools to make major changes in our lives, to break free of the old habits and patterns of domination with their tension, fear, and unhappiness, and to grow and thrive in partnership with all.

The narrative follows Riane Tennenhaus Eisler's remarkable journey from a Jewish refugee in Nazi-occupied Europe to a prominent figure in the American Women's Movement. After fleeing to Cuba and later emigrating to the U.S., she earned advanced degrees and became a professor at UCLA. Her influential works address critical issues such as no-fault divorce and the feminization of poverty, culminating in "The Equal Rights Handbook," which advocates for the Equal Rights Amendment as a fundamental issue of justice and equality.

The book explores the decline of the traditional American nuclear family alongside the rise of no-fault divorce, highlighting how legal changes have shifted the dynamics of marriage and family life. Riane Tennenhaus Eisler provides a thorough examination of the implications of these societal transformations, documenting the impact on relationships and individual lives. Through vivid storytelling and well-researched insights, the author delves into the cultural and emotional ramifications of these evolving family structures.

Riane Eisler shows us how history has consistently promoted the link between sex and violence—and how we can sever this link and move to a politics of partnership rather than domination in all our relations.