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Some of her works are currently held in private collections of individuals: Sig Lonegren, Alice Walker, and Genevieve Vaughan [13] hold a few, while Maggie Parks holds most of her art.

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Born in 1938, Monica Sjöö committed her life as an advocate for gender justice, eco-feminism and social equality. Originally appeared in From the Flames: Radical Feminism with Spirit magazine, issue 2, winter 1998/99. It is currently in print and has been, and still is, a part of many women's studies, mythology and religious studies syllabi. Instead, they espoused the eighteenth-century philosophy that defined human beings as (1) essentially good, and (2) capable of progress through knowledge, reason, justice, and liberty. If we wanted to reduce one of the sexes to a purely reproductive function, on the basis of it's anatomy (we don't), it would be the male sex that qualified for such a reduction, not the female.And we begin to see why the upstart patriarchal religions based themselves on the utter destruction of the goddess/serpent, pictured by the Babylonians as “primeval chaos”—an image picked up later by the Hebrews and used in the biblical Genesis, where Eve linked with her serpent become the symbols of ontological evil. Barbara Mor's "The Blue Rental:" Rooms Outside Hollywood, Hell, USA - The Los Angeles Review of Books". For two-and-a-half billion years on earth, all life-forms floatedinthewomb-like environment oftheplanetary ocean-nourished and protected by its fluid chemicals, rocked bythelunar-tidal rhythms. Truly, our very sanity is at stake with continuing patriarchy and the denial of the cosmic self—the Goddess—within us all, and within her. We are about to destroy each other, and the world, because of profound mistakes made in Bronze Age patriarchal ontology—mistakes about the nature of being, about the nature of human being in the world.

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The snake was first of all a symbol of eternal life (like the moon), since each time it shed its skin it seemed reborn. Margaret Harrison (1977) states that [on one occasion in 1970 several of Sjöö's paintings were banned from being shown in St. 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. Drawing from a wide range of archaeological, mythological, and anthropological sources, the authors present a comprehensive and thought-provoking analysis of the suppressed role of women and the goddess in ancient civilizations. The current “thrust” of materialism is to escape the earth’s orbit, to flee the knowledge and the problems of our messy, bloody, hungry, and waste-producing bodily origins—to dwell on wholly sterile and manmade stations (stasis, static) in space, where the astronaut, the modern priest of the techno-phallic religion, realizes his ancient dream: to utterly escape the earthly processes the rest of us remain wallowing in.Sjoo repeatedly conflates concepts, letting distinctions between matrilineal, matrifocal, and matriarchal blur, whenever it suits her agenda (and she does have a relentless, redundant, strident agenda). Alice Walker (author of Pulitzer Prize-winning 1982 "The Colour Purple" and many other wonderful books). We need this organic, global spirituality because we are ready to evolve as a globally conscious species. However, after separating from her second husband, Andy Jubb, a composer, in the mid 1970s, Sjöö had an intense relationship with Keith Paton, a founder of the Alternative Socialist movement and, like Sjöö herself, a regular contributor to the alternative press, especially Peace News.