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By Riane Eisler

Tomorrow’s Children: A Blueprint for Partnership Education in the 21st Century by Riane Eisler goes beyond conventional debates about educational reform to what today’s and tomorrow’s children need to survive and flourish.

Tomorrow’s Children recommends sweeping changes in both the content and process of teaching and maintains that ideas of struggle, conquest, and destruction can successfully be supplanted by those of cooperation, mutual aid, and respect for creation. The result is a revolutionary and inspiring picture of how education–and by extension, society–might look in the twenty-first century.

Partnership education will be part of everyone’s consciousness, as the whole community will recognize that children are our most precious resource–to be nurtured, cultivated, and encouraged to flower in the unique ways each of us can. Partnership schools will be resources of and for the whole community, linked to other schools, communities, and nations through electronic communications fostering a world community. In partnership schools, tomorrow’s children will form visions of what can be and acquire the understandings and skills to make these visions come true. (Adapted from the Epilogue to Tomorrow’s Children).

By Riane Eisler

The ERA Handbook: What ERA Means to Your Life, Your Rights, and the Future, blueprinted one of the most important social movements of our time. The Equal Rights Handbook presents the case for the ERA as a matter of simple justice.

When it was originally published, The ERA Handbook was the only mass paperback on the Equal Rights Amendment.

By Riane Eisler

Sacred Pleasure: Sex, Myth, and the Politics of the Body, New Paths to Power and Love explores the past, present, and potential future of sex. It looks at both sex and the sacred in the larger context of our cultural and biological evolution. It demystifies much in our sexual history that has been confusing, indeed incomprehensible, shedding new light on matters still generally shoved under the rug of the religious dogma or scientific jargon.

It shows that the struggle for our future is not just political in the conventional sense of the word, but revolves around fundamental issues of pain and pleasure. Above all, it helps us better understand?and thus break free of?the agonies we chronically suffer in our search for healthier and more satisfying ways of living and loving.

Our most powerful human yearning is for connection for sex, for love, for all that gives pleasure and meaning to our lives. Yet sexual violence is commonplace and the “war of the sexes” continues to perpetuate misunderstanding and pain. Why does this struggle persist? What can we do to reclaim our innate power to give and receive pleasure and to find meaning in our lives?

With the bravado and insight ofThe Chalice and The Blade the international bestseller that has transformed the lives of thousands of women and men— Sacred Pleasure ignites a brand-new sexual revolution. In a provocative tour de force on the sexual politics that fashion our time, this groundbreaking book cuts through much of the confusion and turmoil around us, tackling sexual myths that have corrupted male/ female relationships over the millennia.

In a sweeping canvas, it takes us from the first origins of sex on this planet to our own postmodern age, shedding new light not only on sexuality, but on spirituality, love, power, and the two most basic levers for human motivation: pleasure and pain. Boldly asserting that the war between the sexes in not inevitable, Eisler offers a passionate vision of a future when sex and spirituality are once again entwined and men and women face each other as equal partners.

Eisler’s absorbing epic exposes the truths about sex that have been swept under the rug of religious dogma and scientific jargon. Showing what has gone wrong between the sexes, it reveals a whole new history of intimate relations and how these affect and, are in turn, affected by all our relations, whether in the public or private sphere. It charts our course from prehistory, when sex was a celebrated mystery linked to all that is sacred, through the invasion of Europe by monadic warriors, when sex became a means of domination, to the earliest Western civilizations, the reign of the church, and into our time of “culture wars” when women and men all over the world are searching for new ways of living and loving. Along the way, it looks at the economics and politics of sexual and other intimate relations, the modern revolution in consciousness, the epidemic of AIDS, the failure of traditional morality, and the emerging new ethics for sex and spirituality.

In order to accelerate what she calls the “pain to pleasure shift”, Eisler outlines a blueprint for the future of partnership sexuality, spirituality, and a society where pleasure, not pain is the central theme of our sacred and secular imagery—and our lives.

By Riane Eisler

Originally released at the U.N. Conference on Women held in Beijing, China in 1995, Women, Men, and the Global Quality of life, a CPS study of 89 countries, dramatically reveals the connection between women’s rights and a better quality of life for both men and women.

Using a variety of statistical analyses, this 123-page work conclusively correlates women’s higher educational levels, political representation, and access to contraception with a society’s overall higher living standards: life spans, health care, education, income, and preservation of the environment. This study points to policies needed for a partnership future