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WomanSpirit
''WomanSpirit'' (Fall 1974 - Summer 1984) was a lesbian feminist quarterly founded by Ruth and Jean Mountaingrove and produced collectively near Wolf Creek, Oregon. It was the first American lesbian/ feminist periodical to be dedicated to both feminism and spirituality. Many of the contributors to ''WomanSpirit'' were, or became, well known within the women's spirituality movement. It had 40 publications, covering topics such as ecology, goddess myths and rituals, feminist theory, and divination. Its submissions included articles, photos, letters, book reviews, artwork, and songs. History ''WomanSpirit'' was founded by Ruth and Jean Mountaingrove in 1974, who had a vision for a magazine that was "international and radical feminist. We wanted a cultural revolution—a total reordering of institutions and values. It was to be a modest magazine with grand goals." In 1978, they bought and moved to Rootworks, their lesbian land. From 1979 to 1984, they produced ''Womanspirit'' in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ruth Mountaingrove
Ruth Mountaingrove (February 21, 1923 – December 18, 2016) was an American lesbian-feminist photographer, poet and musician, known for her photography documenting the lesbian land movement in Southern Oregon. Early life and education She was born Ruth Shook on February 21, 1923 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Edith Shelling and Herbert Daniel Shook. She earned a Bachelor of Science in Education degree from Kutztown State Teacher's College in 1945, majoring in science with minors in English and Spanish. In 1946, she published a book of poems, ''Rhythms of Spring'', and married Bern Ikeler. After nineteen years of marriage and five children, they divorced in 1965. Mountaingrove joined the Philadelphia chapter of NOW in 1966, and worked to change abortion laws. She helped found Women in Transition by writing for the newspaper, assisting battered women, and helped facilitate the first lesbian group in the city. ''WomanSpirit'' magazine She met her future partner Jean in 197 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oregon Women's Land Trust
Founded in 1975 Oregon Women's Land Trust is a 501(c)(3) membership organization that holds land for conservation and educational purposes in the U.S. state of Oregon. The trust owns 147 acres of land in Douglas County, referred to as OWL Farm, and the mission states that the Trust "is committed to ecologically sound preservation of land, and provides access to land and land wisdom for women." History In the mid-1970s there was great interest among women in the lesbian feminist movement in having access to rural land in order to be able to live outside of mainstream patriarchal culture, which was ridden with violence against women, gay people, and the environment. The feminist spirituality movement was also emerging and grounded in reverence for the natural world. For example the magazine ''WomanSpirit'' was founded and produced nearby by Jean and Ruth Mountaingrove and had worldwide distribution. Some groups of women traveling or temporarily settled in Oregon, California, and ... [...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] |