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Barbara Mor
Barbara Mor (October 3, 1936 — January 24, 2015) was an American poet, editor, and Feminist of the twentieth-century Goddess movement. She became most widely known for ''The Great Cosmic Mother,'' a cross-disciplinary study that cites numerous archaeological, anthropological, historical and mythological texts and artifacts as evidence of women's role as creators and first practitioners of humanity's earliest religious and cultural belief systems. She was published by Athena Press, ''WomanSpirit'', Second Porcupine Press, Harper & Row, and The Oliver Arts & Open Press. Her poetry was included in ''Fired Up with You : Poems of a Niagara Vision'', edited by the poet Will inman (Border Press 1977) Beat origins Attracted by the Beat Movement of the late 1950s and early 1960s, Mor lived and wrote in the Santa Cruz Mountains, Baja California, and Los Angeles before settling in San Diego to attend San Diego State University, where she became deeply involved with the Feminist Movement. S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Goddess Movement
The Goddess movement includes spiritual beliefs or practices (chiefly Modern Paganism, Neopagan) which emerged predominantly in North America, Western Europe, Australia, and New Zealand in the 1970s. The movement grew as a reaction to perceptions of predominant organized religion as patriarchy, male-dominated, and makes use of goddess worship and can include a focus on women, or on one or more understandings of gender or femininity. The Goddess movement is a widespread, non-centralized trend in Neopaganism, and therefore has no centralized tenets of belief. Practices vary widely, from the name and number of goddesses worshipped to the specific rituals and rites used to do so. Some, such as Dianic Wicca, exclusively worship female deities, while others do not. Belief systems range from monotheism, monotheistic to polytheism to pantheism, pantheistic, encompassing a range of theological variety similar to that in the broader neopagan community. Common pluralistic belief means that a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monica Sjöö
Monica Sjöö (31 December 1938 – 8 August 2005) was a Swedish-born British-based painter, writer and Radical feminism, radical Anarcha-feminism, anarcho/ Ecofeminism, eco-feminist who was an early exponent of the Goddess movement. Her books and paintings were foundational to the development of feminist art in Britain, beginning at the time of the founding of the women's liberation movement around 1970. Sjöö's most famous painting is ''God Giving Birth'' (1968), which depicts a woman giving birth and was inspired by Sjöö's religious view of motherhood; it sparked some protests from Christian groups in the 1970s. She wrote or co-wrote the manifesto ''Towards a Revolutionary Feminist Art'' (1971) and ''The Great Cosmic Mother: Rediscovering the Religion of the Earth'' (1987). Sjöö's art and writing became well-known outside of the UK, and throughout the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s she corresponded with influential American writers, artists and pagans such as Jean and Ruth Mou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
