Narrating partnership: Riane Eisler’s cultural paradigm for loving relationships

In this paper I will focus on the intercultural and interdisciplinary model, proposed by Riane Eisler, an outstanding macrohistorian, social activist and anthropologist, who, as a young girl of six, escaped the Holocaust, where most of her relatives inhumanely lost their lives. In the course of her life, she was able to transform this indescribable horror and create her inspiring Cultural transformation theory, becoming a source of inspiration for thousands of us, for she keeps on working for peace and understanding among peoples and individuals, form the social, educational, economic, political and spiritual point of view.

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Antonella RIEM

ANTONELLA RIEM NATALE, former Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Pro-Vice Chancellor International, former Dean of the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures of the University of Udine, is Full Professor of English Literature and Language, Director of the Department of Languages and Literatures, Communication, Education and Society, President of the Italian Conference of Foreign Languages, President of ANDA (National Association of Anglistics) and founder of the Partnership Studies Group (PSG 1998), international research network based at the University of Udine. She is also editor in chief of the series ALL published by Forum University Press and of the online A ranked journal on world literatures Le Simplegadi.

She has more than one hundred international publications and nine monographic volumes on the Literatures in English. Among her main publications: The Spirit of the Creative Word in Patrick White’s Voss. In: Bill Ashcroft & Cynthia vandenDriesen ed. Patrick White’s Centenary. The Legacy of a Prodigal Son. (Cambridge Scholars 2014), The One Life: Coleridge and Hinduism (Jaipur: Rawat 2005), and, as co-editor, the volume The Tapestry of the Creative Word in Anglophone Literatures (Udine: Forum 2013). For the Forum ALL series, she edited the Italian publication of RianeEisler’s books for Forum Editrice Udine: The Chalice and the Blade (2011), Sacred Pleasure (2012) and The Real Wealth of Nations (2015), Tomorrow’s Children (2017), The Power of Partnership (2018). Her latest monographic study is: A Gesture of Reconciliation. Partnership Studies in Australian Literature (2017). She is working on a volume on the figure of the ‘Goddess’ in the literatures in English, both within the ‘canon’ and indigenous ‘minorities’.