Partnership societies are characterized by gender equality, peace, sustainability, caring, while dominator societies are characterized by sexism, chronic war, ecological destruction, and unsustainability. In her third book The Chalice and the Blade, published in 1987, she coined the terms 'partnership' and 'dominator' to describe the two underlying forms of society. Her second book, published in 1979, was on the Equal Rights Amendment. Her first book, published in 1977, was Dissolution: No-Fault Divorce, Marriage, and the Future of Women. She has published thirteen books, including one memoir, The Gate, published in 2000. She is an attorney, legal scholar and author. Įisler has degrees in sociology and law from the University of California. She and her parents lived in a slum in Havana for seven years, after which they emigrated to the United States, to Miami, New York, and Chicago before finally settling in Los Angeles. Life Įisler was born in Vienna in 1931 before her family fled from the Nazis in 1939 to Cuba.

She is most known for her 1987 book The Chalice and the Blade, in which she coined the terms 'partnership' and 'dominator'. Riane Tennenhaus Eisler (born 22 July 1931) is an Austrian-born American systems scientist and author who writes about the effect of gender politics historically on society. The Chalice and the Blade, The Real Wealth of Nations (2008)

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