vicki noble receives Demeter award for leadership in women’s spirituality
This year the ASWM Board of Directors has chosen to grant the Demeter Award for Leadership in Women’s Spirituality to two outstanding women, in recognition of their lifetime achievements in forging new paths for women. Vicki Noble is this year’s recipient, along with Dr.Judy Grahn.
This award is given in recognition of Vicki’s intellectual leadership as a feminist writer, scholar, and wisdom teacher. Her teaching career began at Colorado College in the women’s interdisciplinary program that she created, and continued as scholar in residence in the Women’s Spirituality graduate program at New College of California and California Institute of Integral Studies, where she explored matriarchal and goddess studies. Drawing on her work with archaeologist Marija Gimbutas, Vicki has lectured and taught internationally at the graduate level on female shamanism and the healing arts, as well as having written several books that articulate ritual healing processes.
With the1981 publication of the first feminist-inspired tarot deck, Vicki placed in women’s hands the now famous “Motherpeace Tarot Deck,” which was conceived, researched, and published with artist Karen Vogel. This influential deck has sold over 200,000 copies, internationally. With the deck and accompanying book, she has inspired and supported women in the quest for a feminist-inspired spiritual practice.
Vicki’s scholarly and widely translated book The Double Goddess: Women Sharing Power (2003) provides a synthesis of archaeology, prehistory, and mythology of ancient Goddess cultures, revisioning the role of women as central to shamanism and tantric practice in all of AfroEurAsia for at least ten millennia. Her exploration of cross-cultural images and icons of sacred double females in Asia, Africa, and Old Europe reveals a lineage of women’s leadership and social power that runs forward from prehistoric times. Translated into Spanish, French, Italian, The Double Goddess received the 2003 Enheduanna Award for Excellence in Women-Centered Literature.
Previous honorees for the Demeter Award include Margot Adler (2010), Charlene Spretnak (2012), Jean Shinoda Bolen (2014), Elinor Gadon and Lucia Chiavola Birnbaum (2016), and Kathy Jones (2018).
Read the 2020 Demeter Award letter and learn more about Vicki’s work at vickinoble.com.
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