The Association for the Study of Women and Mythology
We note the passing of feminist cultural historian Elinor Gadon with sadness but also with great gratitude for her work and her influence on research into goddesses and strong women. On this post we will assemble remarks from those who knew her and also from those who benefitted from her work. We will add comments …
WELCOME to our 2016 Conference blog. Important links are listed below, or you may scroll through this blog to see all posts about the conference. Here you will find articles about the program, presenters, and special opportunities. Our pre-conference registration deadline has now passed. We will accept walk-in registrations on Friday, April 1, starting at 7:30 …
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Foremothers Receives Award from Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association We are delighted to announce this recent news about the recently released anthology, Foremothers of the Women’s Spirituality Movement: Elders and Visionaries, edited by Miriam Dexter and Vicki Noble. The book has been selected as a co-winner to receive the Susan Koppleman Award for the Best …
Voices of Our Foremothers Forty years ago, the Second Wave Feminist Movement was in full swing in America. Radical women began to question the very concept of God as male, with “man in his image,” and from this revolutionary brew, the Women’s Spirituality movement was born. Just as foam-born Aphrodite arose from the sea, the …
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Yemanjá: Wisdom from the African Heart of Brazil is a documentary exploring ethics, social justice, racism, ecological sustainability and power of community and faith, via the stories of four extraordinary elder female leaders of the Afro-indigenous Candomblé spiritual tradition, in Bahia, Brazil. This is a beautiful, stirring film by Donna Roberts (producer/co-director, Donna Read (co-director, …
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