ABSTRACT
Applying holistic methodologies, social configurations that recur across times and across cultures become visible, particularly the domination system and the partnership system. This chapter explores these otherwise invisible connections, especially connections between how childhood and gender are socially constructed and whether a society is more peaceful and egalitarian or, alternately, more violent and inequitable. To complete the shift from dominator systems to partnership systems, we must use creativity to focus on the four cornerstones of childhood, gender, a new economics of partnerism, and language and stories that more accurately reflect our past, present, and the possibilities for our future.
