Inventory for the Charlene Spretnak: Early Feminist Spirituality Collection
Michelle Reeder
Graduate Theological Union Archives
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2011
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Inventory of the Charlene Spretnak: Early Feminist Spirituality Collection
Collection number: GTU 2006-7-01
Graduate Theological Union Archives
Graduate Theological Union
Berkeley, California
- Processed by:
- Michelle Reeder
- Date Completed:
- copyright 2011
- Encoded by:
- Michelle Reeder and David Stiver
copyright 2011 Graduate Theological Union. All rights reserved.
Descriptive Summary
Title:
Charlene Spretnak: early feminist spirituality collection
Dates: 1971-2006
Collection number: GTU 2006-7-01
Collector:
Spretnak, Charlene, 1946-
Collection Size:
2.5 linear ft.
(2 boxes, 1 folio box, 1 map case drawer)
Repository:
The
Graduate Theological Union Library.
Abstract:
The collection consists of journal articles, pamphlets, and newspaper clippings; complete issues of magazines and journals;
calendars; posters; audio/visual materials; glossaries; bibliographies.
Physical location: 4/K/3
Languages:
Languages represented in the collection:
English
Access
Collection is open for research.
Publication Rights
Copyright has not been assigned to The Graduate Theological Union. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts
must be submitted in writing to the Archivist. Permission for publication is given on behalf of The Graduate Theological Union
as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must
also be obtained by the reader.
Preferred Citation
Charlene Spretnak: early feminist spirituality collection, GTU 2006-7-01. Graduate Theological Union Archives, Berkeley, CA.
Acquisition Information
Materials were originally donated by Spretnak to Belladonna, a feminist center and resource library in Berkeley, California.
When Belladonna closed, the files were transferred by Spretnak to the Graduate Theological Union Archives in 2006.
Biography / Administrative History
Charlene Spretnak (1946- ) was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and raised in Columbus, Ohio. An author, lecturer, and academic,
Spretnak earned her B.A. at St. Louis University, and an M.A. in English and American Literature from the University of California,
Berkeley (1981). Beginning her pioneering work in the 1970s, Spretnak is known for her theorizing, scholarship, and activism
in the areas of feminism (including women's spirituality), ecological thought (including Green politics), cultural history
(including the history of modern art), social criticism, and dynamic interrelatedness. As of 2010, she is a professor in Women's
Spirituality in the Philosophy and Religion Program at the California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco, California,
and a research fellow at The Green Institute, a center for research and policy of the Green Movement. She was inducted in
1989 into the Ohio Women's Hall of Fame in recognition of her writings on spirituality and social justice. In 2006, she was
named by the British government's Environment Department as one of the "100 Eco-Heroes of All Time."
Scope and Content of Collection
The collection consists predominately of loose materials accumulated by Spretnak on various feminist subjects, such as Goddess
spirituality and ecofeminism. With the exception of a limited number of notes written by Spretnak, the collection does not
include any of her manuscripts or personal papers.
Arrangement
Titles for the individual file folders were Spretnak's. Folders are arranged within the containers alphabetically. The original
order of items within each file folder is unknown, since the collection was not received directly from Spretnak. Periodicals
are arranged into alphabetical order by title. The collection contains three series. Each series contains material in the
above subjects and is divided by medium. Series 1: Collected Materials in Subject Files; Series 2: Audio-Visual Materials;
and Series 3: Posters.
Indexing Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Feminism--Religious Aspects
Feminism--Periodicals
Feminist spirituality
Goddess religion
Ecofeminism
Budapest, Zsuzsanna Emese, 1940-
Forfreedom, Ann
Grimstad, Kirsten J.
Pare, Louise
Rennie, Susan
Separated Material
Rare Books: The following books have been removed from the archives collection and cataloged into the Graduate Theological
Union Library Rare Materials Collection.
Grimstad, Kirsten and Rennie, Susan, Eds., The New Woman's Survival Catalog (New York: Coward, McCann and Geoghegan, 1973).
Lucie-Smith, Edward and Chicago, Judy, Judy Chicago: An American Vision (New York: Watson-Guptill Publications, 2000).
Politics of Matriarchy (London: Matriarchy Study Group, 1979).
Rush, Anne Kent, Moon, Moon (New York: Random House, 1976).
Weinstein, Marion, Marion Weinstein's Earth Magic: A Dianic Book of Shadows (New York: Earth Magic Productions, 1980), 1st
edition.
Winter, Nina, Interview with the Muse: Remarkable Women Speak on Creativity and Power (Berkeley, Calif.: Moon Books, 1978).
Library Circulating Collection: The following books have been removed from the archives collection and cataloged into the
Graduate Theological Union Library circulating holdings.
Boston Women's Health Book Collective, The New Our Bodies, Ourselves: A Book by and for Women (New York: Simon and Schuster,
1984).
Coupey, Philippe, Ed., Sit: Zen Teachings of Master Taisen Deshimaru (Prescott, Ariz.: Hohm Press, 1996).
Forfreedom, Ann, Ed., Women Out of History: A Herstory Anthology (Sacramento, Calif.: A. Forfreedom, 1972).
Galland, China, Women in the Wilderness (New York: Harper and Row, 1980).
Gearhart, Sally and Rennie, Susan, A Feminist Tarot: A Guide to Intrapersonal Communication (Watertown, MA: Persephone Press,
1977).
Hall, Manly P., An Encyclopedic Outline of Masonic, Hermetic, Qabbalistic and Rosicrucian Symbolical Philosophy (Los Angeles:
Philosophical Research Society, 1978).
Kimball, Gayle, Ed., Women's Culture: The Women's Renaissance of the Seventies (Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1981).
Koltuv, Barbara Black, Amulets, Talismans, and Magical Jewelry: A Way to the Unseen, Ever-Present, Almighty God (Berwick,
ME: Nicolas-Hays, 2005).
Livingstone, Glenys, Motherhood Mythology (Berkeley, Calif.: G. Livingston, 1984).
Mackenzie, Midge, Shoulder to Shoulder: A Documentary (New York: Knopf, 1975).
Pepper, Elizabeth and Wilcock, John, Witches All: A Treasury from Past Editions of The Witches' Almanac (New York: Grosset
and Dunlap, 1977).
Pesek-Marous, Eduard, Salvatore: Bull of Salvation (Rolling Hills, Calif.: Tau Press, 1976).
Phelps, Ethel Johnston, The Maid of the North: Feminist Folk Tales from Around the World, (New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston,
1981).
Spretnak, Charlene, Ed., The Politics of Women's Spirituality: Essays by Founding Mothers of the Movement (New York: Anchor
Books, Doubleday, 1994).
box 1:1 - 2:4
Series 1.
Collected materials in subject files
1971-2004
Physical Description:
32 folders, 1 folio
box-folder 1 : 1
Animal Behavior
1980-1990
box-folder 1 : 2
Budapest, Zsuzsanna.
Selene: The Most Famous Bull-leaper on Earth
, Illustrated by Carol Clement
1976
box-folder 1 : 6
Cartoons and Music
undated
box-folder 1 : 7
Duran, Jim, Indo-European Workshop
1982
box-folder 1 : 8
Ecofeminism Archives, part 1
1980
box-folder 1 : 9
Ecofeminism Archives, part 2
1980-1997
box-folder 1 : 10
Don Emer Press - Photograph: Elizabeth Corbet Yeats, Beatrice Cassidy, Esther Ryan
1913
box-folder 1 : 11
Events and Exhibitions
1970-1990
box-folder 1 : 12
Forfreedom, Ann, and Julie Ann, Eds.
Book of the Goddess.
With a loose note to Spretnak from Ann Forfreedom.
1913
box-folder 1 : 14
Gimbutas, Marija, By and About
1979-1987.
box-folder 1 : 15
Goddess, Glossary
undated
box-folder 1 : 16
Goddess, Historical Goddess Spirituality
1924-2001
box-folder 1 : 17
Goddess, Miscellaneous Goddess Research
1980-1996
box-folder 1 : 18
Goddessing Network Newsletter
and
Goddessing Regenerated
.
Goddessing Network Newsletter
, Willow LaMonte, editor,
Cronetime
1992 1(1); Summer 1993 (2); Early Autumn 1993 (3).
Goddessing Regenerated
, Willow LaMonte, editor, Autumn/Winter 1995/1996 (4).
1992-1996.
box-folder 1 : 19
Grimstad, Kirstin, and Rennie, Susan, Eds.
The New Woman's Survival Sourcebook
1975
box-folder 1 : 20
Hildegard Newsletters (Qualelibet).
Qualelibet
, International Society of Hildegard von Bingen Studies, Frances Flynn, Ed. Autumn 1999, 15(2); Spring 2000, 16(1); Autumn
2000, 16(2); Spring 2001, 17(1); Autumn 2001, 17(2); Spring 2003, 19(1); Autumn 2003, 19(2); Spring 2004, 20(1); Autumn 2004,
20(2).
1999-2003
box-folder 1 : 21
Journals and Newsletters, A through C:
aphra: The Feminist Literary Magazine
, Summer, 1973 4(3).
Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars: Special Issue: Asian Women
, January-March 1975, 7(1).
Celebration of Women in Buddhist Practice
, Summer 1989, 1.
Conditions: Five: The Black Women's Issue
, 1979.
1973-1989
box-folder 1 : 22
Journals and Newsletters, C through F:
Connexions: An International Women's Quarterly
, 1988-1989, 28.
Cultural Survival Quarterly: Women in a Changing World
, Summer 1984.
Daughters of Sarah
, May/June 1986, 12(3).
Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies: Women's Oral History Issue
, Summer 1977, 2(2).
1977-1989
box-folder 1 : 23
Journals and Newsletters, L through S:
Libera
, 1974.
The Second Wave: A Magazine of the New Feminism
, Spring 1975, 4(1).
Shaman's Drum: A Journal of Experiential Shamanism
, Spring 1986, 4.
Sister Wisdom: A Journal of Words and Pictures for the Lesbian Imagination in all Women
, Spring 1977.
1974-1986
box-folder 1 : 24
Journals and Newsletters, T through W.
The Tarrytown Letter: A New Vision of the Feminine
, February 1985, 46.
Womanspirit, Spring Equinox
1981, 7(27).
Women: A Journal of Liberation
, Winter 1971, 2(2).
1971-1985
box-folder 1 : 25
Male Fear and Resultant Patriarchy
1987-1988
box-folder 1 : 27
Minoan and Early Greek Research
1979-1992
box-folder 2 : 1
Pare, Louise,
Moving Between the Worlds She Brings Forth All Things from Within Her Body: Intrinsic Movement as Transformative Spiritual
Practice and Expression of Women's Spirituality
, Ph.D. Dissertation, California Institute of Integral Studies. Part 1.
2002
box-folder 2 : 2
Pare, Louise,
Moving Between the Worlds She Brings Forth All Things from Within Her Body: Intrinsic Movement as Transformative Spiritual
Practice and Expression of Women's Spirituality
, Ph.D. Dissertation, California Institute of Integral Studies. Part 2.
2002
box-folder 2 : 2a
Jenett, Dianne Elkins,
As if There Were a Goddess: An Organic Approach
. This paper discusses Jenett's research process for her 1999 Ph.D. dissertation,
Red Rice for Bhagavati/Cooking for Kannaki
(California Institute of Integral Studies).
circa 2000
box-folder 2 : 3
Pamphlets: Barry, Kathy, and others.
Stop Rape
, 1971. Kent, Marty.
In the Shadow of a Goddess: A Healing Journey at Machu Picchu, Peru, 1971
. Mariechild, Diane.
Womancraft: the Conscious Development of Psychic Skills we all Possess
, 1976. Motherson (ne Forrester-Paton), Keith,
Which Way Home?
1979. Patrick, Marcia.
The Primary Divisions
, 1980. Robertson, Olivia.
The Isis Wedding Rite
, 1976. Robertson, Olivia.
Rite of Rebirth
, 1977.
Women's Handbook on Safe Energy
, 1996.
1970-1990
box-folder 2 : 4
Sakyadhita.
Sakyadhita
, International Association of Buddhist Women, Summer, 1991, 2(2); Winter 1992, 3(1); Summer 1992, 3(2); Winter 1993, 4(1);
Summer 1993, 4(1) [sic]; Winter 1994, 5(1); Summer 1994, 5(2); Winter 1997, 8(2); Summer 2003, 13(2).
1991-2003
folio 1
Judy Chicago Exhibition Guide, Oversize Calendars
1977-1980
Series 2.
Audio/visual materials
1990-2000
Physical Description:
3 audiocassettes, 1 compact disc, 3 videocassettes
box-audiotape 2 : 1
Deepening
, Ruth Barrett and Cyntia Smith
1984
box-audiotape 2 : 2
Gaia's Voice: The Chorus of Life
, Deborah Hamouris, director,
undated
box-audiotape 2 : 3
A Rainbow Path, Kay Gardner
1989
box-compactdisc 2 : 4
Storming the Gate, Barbara Weikamp
2000
box-videotape 2 : 1
The Blinking Madonna and Other Miracles
, Beth Harrington (VHS)
1995
box-videotape 2 : 2
Full Circle
, Donna Read (VHS)
undated
box-videotape 2 : 3
Women and Her Symbols: Part IV: The Muse in the Mirror
, Mary R. Hopkins (VHS)
1990-1993
Series 3.
Posters
1972-2000
Physical Description:
9 posters
Physical location: Map Drawer 3
poster 1
Cretan women sharing a goblet of wine, (12 in x 11.25 in)
undated
poster 2
You Are Supported, Open Women Creations, (14 in x 11 in)
1994
poster 3
"Ecofeminist Perspectives: Culture, Nature, Theory: A Conference, March 27-29, 1987," University of Southern California Program
for the Study of Women and Men in Society, (20 in x 16 in)
1987
poster 4
"Proposals for: Memorials to the 9,000,000 Women burned as Witches in the christian Era," Mary Beth Edelson. Photo of a neolithic
Goddess cave at Hvar Island, Jugoslavija near Jelsea. (22 in x 17.5 in)
1997
poster 5
The Womanspirit Sourcebook," Patrice Wynne. Inscribed "Dear Charlene, Thanks for your inspiration and your caring spirit,
Fondly, Patrice." (22 in x 17 in)
undated
poster 6
"Hildegard of Bingen, 1098-1179," Friends of Creation Spirituality, Inc., ICCS, Holy Names College, Oakland, Calif. (24 in
x 17 in)
undated
poster 7
"White Tara: Mother of compassion," Tibetan Nyingmapa Meditation Center, Tibetan Thanka Series, (29 in x 20.5)
1972
poster 8
"turning through time: workwoven," Womens [sic] Graphic Collective, (30 in x 20 in)
undated
poster 9
"Macerata Loreto, sabato 8 giugno, 2002," Associazione "Comitato Pellegrinaggio a Loreto." Drawing of a Black Madonna. Note
taped to back of poster: "Women's spr. posters for Belladonna." (39 in x 27 in)
2002
