Riane Eisler has 4 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 4 narrators, with an average listener rating of 4★ across 6 ratings. The most-rated is The Chalice and the Blade.
The Chalice and the Blade
Summary
Riane Eisler believes that war and the "war of the sexes" are concepts neither divinely nor biologically ordained. Join the author as she reconstructs a prehistoric culture based on partnership rather than domination and traces the roots of the global shift to patriarchy. Eisler, an acclaimed scholar, futurist, and activist, also presents new scripts for living based on a more socially, economically, ecologically, personally, and spiritually balanced society. This script is in direct opposition to the tension and violence typical of what she calls the dominator model. Her vision is the partnership model, which today is struggling to reemerge. This program is an important contribution to that struggle.
©1987 Riane Eisler (P)1997 New World Library
The Real Wealth of Nations
Summary
Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations provided the first, most influential and lasting explanation of the workings of modern economics. But with his focus on "the market" as the best mechanism for producing and distributing the necessities of life, Smith's concepts only told part of the story, leading to flawed economic models that devalue activities that fall outside of the market's parameters of buying and selling. The real wealth of nations, Riane Eisler argues, is not merely financial, but includes the contributions of people and our natural environment. Here, Eisler goes beyond the market to reexamine economics from a larger perspective - and shows that we must give visibility and value to the socially and economically essential work of caring for people and the planet if we are to meet the enormous challenges we face. Eisler proposes a new "caring economics" that takes into account the full spectrum of economic activities - from the life-sustaining activities of the household, to the life-enriching activities of caregivers and communities, to the life-supporting processes of nature. She shows how our values are distorted by the economic double standard that devalues anything stereotypically associated with women and femininity; reveals how current economic models are based on a deep-seated culture of domination; and shows how human needs would be better served by economic models based on caring. Most importantly, she provides practical proposals for new economic inventions - new measures, policies, rules, and practices - to bring about a caring economics that fulfills human needs. Like her classic The Chalice and the Blade, The Real Wealth of Nations is a bold and insightful look at how to create a society in which each of us can achieve the full measure of our humanity.
©2007 Riane Eisler (P)2007 Polity Audio LLC
The Real Wealth of Nations
Summary
The great problems of our time - such as poverty, inequality, war, terrorism, and environmental degradation - are due in part to our flawed economic models that set the wrong priorities and misallocate resources. Conventional economic measures, policies, and practices fail to give visibility and value to the most essential human work - the work of caring and caregiving.This powerful book proposes that we need a radical reformulation of economics, one that supports caring and caregiving at the individual, organizational, societal, and environmental levels. This "caring economics" takes into account the full spectrum of economic activities - from the life-sustaining activities of the household, to the life-enriching activities of caregivers and communities of all types, to the life-supporting processes of nature. Eisler exposes the economic double standard that devalues anything stereotypically associated with women and femininity and shows how this distorts our values and our lives.
©2007 Riane Eisler (P)2007 Polity Audio LLC
The Fabric of The Future
Summary
The full list of authors includes: Shakti Gawain, Gloria Steinem, Margot Anand, Angeles Arrien, Sue Bender, Jean Shinoda Bolen, Sylvia Boorstein, Joan Borysenko, Z Budapest, Brooke Medicine Eagle, Riane Eisler, Flor Fernandez, Carol Lee Flinders, China Galland, Glennifer Gillespie, Jean Houston, Barbara Marx Hubbard, Cheri Huber, Daphne Rose Kingma, Woodeene Koenig-Bricker, Joanna Macy, Nancy Mairs, Dawna Markova, Vimala McClure, Caroline Myss, Gayatri Naraine, Starhawk, Luisah Teish, Sue Patton Thoele, Paula Underwood, Rama Vernon, Margaret Wheatley, Marianne Williamson, and Marion Woodman. Where do we go from here, and what, practically, must we do to get there? When the contributers to Fabric of the Future were asked this question, the response was immediate and impassioned. Leading women thinkers - psychologists, writers, futurists, environmentalists, business consultants, activists, and artists - representing the broadest spectrum of religion, philosophy, spirituality, and ethnicity surveyed the cultural landscape and offered their collective insight into how we can navigate these turbulent times. The voices in this anthology speak to what is breaking through and how we can harness its enormous potential: the essays are strikingly original, their messages are consistently wise, urgent, and healing. With the forsight and intellectual courage that spring from these writings, we can begin to envision the future into being.
©1998 Conari Press (P)1998 New Star Media Inc.