MagasIN published the interview with Dr.Eisler in a recent article titled, “Cuando las mujeres dominaron el mundo: por qué pasaron de ser diosas a esclavas del ‘macho” or “When women ruled the world:: why they went from being goddesses to masculine subordinates” in english.ĭr.Riane Eisler and Spanish journalist, Lorena G. Riane Eisler discusses the newest edition of her book El Cáliz y la Espada in an interview with Spain’s magasIN, a section of the Spanish newspaper El Español that highlights the achievements of women in the fight for equality.

Eisler se traslada a las culturas prepatriarcales para pensar –basándose en evidencias arqueológicas, antropológicas e históricas– en sociedades que no articulan sus roles en la binariedad de sexos, y que han impulsado a pensar a los lectores en posibles formas de convivir en el futuro verdaderamente igualitarias.” Y es que trata de remontarse y también de imaginar modelos de cultura impensables desde nuestro presente: unos basados en la colaboración en lugar de la dominación. “Que este libro sea un best seller internacional es una noticia tranquilizadora. Eisler moves to pre-triarchal cultures to think –based on archaeological, anthropological and historical evidence– about societies that do not articulate their roles in the binary of the sexes, and that have prompted readers to think about possible ways of truly living together in the future. “This book imagines models of culture unthinkable from our present: some based on collaboration instead of domination. The article titled, “Tres libros de historia muy interesantes sobre cosas que no diste en el colegio” or “Three interesting history books about things they don’t teach you in school”. Spanish Vogue recently featured El Cáliz y La Espada as one of three books to read that they didn’t teach you in school. Their discussion was published in an El Confidencial article titled, “Riane Eisler huyó del Holocausto para revolucionar la historia: “Cambiemos el relato masculino” or Riane Eisler fled the Holocaust to revolutionize history: “Let’s change the masculine story”.

In an interview with El Confidencial, an independent online newspaper based in Spain, Dr.Riane Eisler talks with Marta Medina about the changes that have occurred in the world since ‘The Chalice and The Blade’s’ first edition. Below are highlights from Dr.Eisler’s interviews with Spanish publications. Dr.Eisler’s book may be thirty years old, but it continues to show that it was ahead of its time.Įl Cáliz Y La Espada has excited a curiosity in Spanish readers and Spanish journalists alike. Three decades after its first print Spanish edition, El Cáliz y La Espada is inspiring an entire new generation of Spanish readers in Spain and Colombia. This year’s Spanish reissue of El Cáliz y La Espada has lead to an outpour of interest and passion for Dr.

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