But that night I also witnessed something I carried with me the rest of my life.
On Kristallnacht, so called because of all the glass shattered in Jewish homes, synagogues, and businesses, a gang of Gestapo men broke into our home and dragged my father off. “I was born in Vienna, and my parents and I lived there until Austria was annexed by Nazi Germany. She lived through the Nazi occupation of Austria when she was a child, and she writes the following about that experience: Riane Eisler is a social systems scientist, cultural historian, and attorney whose research, writing, and speaking has transformed the lives of people worldwide. Malia, can you give us some background on Riane Eisler, and some of the main points that we’ll be discussing in her book, The Chalice and the Blade.
Malia: (What interested Malia in the project)Īmy: Thank you so much for being here! And with that, let’s dive in. So Malia, can you tell us a little bit about yourself? Your background and what you like to do and your point of view that you bring to the text?Īmy: Can I also ask you what interested you in the project? Malia and I are neighbors here in California, and Malia, I’m thrilled that you joined this project because you are such a brilliant thinker and an amazing person. This book was published in 1987, and along with other female archaeologists working at the time, Eisler proposed theories about humans’ prehistoric past that caused quite a stir in the field of archaeology and gave rise to a spiritual “goddess” movement within feminism in the 1980’s and 90’s.īut before we dive in, I’m excited to introduce my first reading partner, Malia Morris. Today’s episode will be a discussion of the book The Chalice and the Blade, by Riane Eisler.
wiki-commons:Special:FilePath/Thunder_in_God's_Country_poster.Amy: Welcome to Breaking Down Patriarchy.The author presents a conceptual framework for studying social systems with particular attention to how a society constructs roles and relations between the female and male halves of humanity. The Chalice and The Blade: Our History, Our Future is a 1987 book by Riane Eisler.
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