Charlene spretnak wikipedia
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Charlene Spretnak was born in Pittsburgh and raised in Columbus, Ohio. She holds a B.A. magna cum laude, with appointment to Phi Beta Kappa, from St. Louis University, and an M.A. in English and American literature from the University of California at Berkeley. Her work is internationally recognized in various areas of social criticism (including feminism); cultural history; ecological thought and activism (including Green politics and ecological philosophy); and spirituality and religion. She is a cofounder of the Green Party movement in the United States and two branches of the feminist movement: ecofeminism and women's spirituality.
Her eco-social, relational worldview has its roots in eleven summers she spent in the Hocking Hills of southeastern Ohio (the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains) at a girls' summer camp. Her love of cultural and intellectual history was acquired through four years at a Jesuit university, where she studied with Walter J. Ong and other inspiring scholars. Her felt responsibility to help ease the suffering of the world was instilled by her parents.
Each of her books was a foray into a new or unexplored area in order to map the terrain, an effort to figure out and suggest a way of comprehending the overall coherence and significance o
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The Feminist Writers' Guild
The Feminist Writers' Guild was an American feminist organization from Berkeley, California, founded by Mary Mackey, Adrienne Rich, Susan Griffin, Charlene Spretnak, and Valerie Miner.[1] Established in 1978, the group was primarily known for their national newsletter. They aimed to augment the feminist movement of the late 1970s by creating a strong network for women writers to communicate and support each other. They promoted works by women regardless of their age, class, race and sexual preference. The FWG published three times a year through a subscription service and accommodated their prices for unemployed or low-income women.[2]
According to an interview with Dodie Bellamy, who was once involved with the Guild, many of the members were made up of both poor and rich women—much like a "Marxist community".[3] Bellamy also said that she found herself standing in rooms with many notable women such as Susan Griffin because of the Guild.
Origins
[edit]According to a note in the Women's Studies Quarterly by Freedman and Rosaldo, the Feminist Writers Guild started with a group first in Berkeley, California and then a group in New York; by the 1980s the Feminist Writers’ Guild had more than 1000 members and
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