Category: Research & Scholarship

ASWM’s mission focuses on research, scholarship and teaching in Women and Mythology. These posts highlight some of our activities and members.

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Some Guidelines for Fair Use

In this age of the web, authors and artists will invariably run into copyright issues, either in terms of their own work or in terms of fair use of another’s work.  We have an obligation to make ourselves aware of the limitations imposed by copyright law and exceptions for “fair use” for educational purposes.

Stanford University library site covers all things related to copyright.

Here are two other good articles describing fair use:

A Photo Editor’s article on photo use on blogs

Carolyn E. Wright’s blog Photo Attorney, “The Fuss About Fair Use”

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Explorator: Links to World Archaeology

Whether you are interested in classical Greece or the Australian Dreamtime, the Explorator listserv by David Meadows is a wonderful resource.  In its 15th year, this great list covers links to all kinds of web articles (and accompanying images) on the broad topic of archaeology.  No ads, no discussion–just a single weekly email of links for you to pursue.  To subscribe to Explorator, send a blank email message to:

Explorator-subscribe@yahoogroups.com

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Image Archive for Educational Use

If you are frequently searching for images from art history or archaeological sites, you might want to add California State University’s WorldImages site to your bookmarks.  This site contains more than 80,000 images which you are free to use for non-profit educational purposes, provided that you credit the copyright holders of those images.  The database began as a collection used for teaching a survey art history course, but it has grown to include images appropriate for all grade levels.

The photo above is an example of an image relevant to our ongoing exploration of bee imagery.  Here’s the copyright information provided in WorldImages:

Silver Tetradrachm. Bee. Ephesos.
390 BCE-340 BCE
Silver
Struck
Greek Classical
Ephesus. Turkey.
New York. Metropolitan Museum of Art.
©Kathleen Cohen

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Call for Writers: The Red Tent Anthology

A Red Tent, Arlington, VA
Call for Writers
Womanspace, a not-for-profit organization in Rockford Illinois is seeking submissions to be part of their “Red Tent Anthology” of women’s poetry and non-fiction to be published in time for the Red Tent Events, June 21-26, 2011. These Events are to be held in conjunction with the forthcoming documentary “Things We Don’t Talk About–The Red Tent Movie,” by Isadora Leidenfrost.
There is no entry fee for submissions, but you do have to submit your entry by March.
If you want more info or the application visit: http://www.redtentmovie.com/red_tent_anthology.html
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Engaging Living Traditions

by Kathryn Henderson, Ph. D.

Goddess Spirituality is eclectic in that we pursue scholarly research about female deity from traditions spanning time, cultures, and space and use that information in our spiritual practice.  We draw on many sources, ranging from scholarly research generated from the study of ancient surviving images and texts, to oral tradition mythologies, to our own intuitional or psychic connection to sacred energies.  We also draw on contemporary spiritual traditions, our own and others.  Engagement of Deities and religious practices of living traditions outside our own raises the thorny issue of balance between attempts at cultural inclusiveness and cultural appropriation.

Read PDF article:  Engaging Living Traditions by Kathryn Henderson