Charlene Spretnak
Charlene Spretnak is author of nine books on cultural history, social criticism (including feminism and Green politics), and religion and spirituality. Her work includes The Spiritual Dynamic in Modern Art, 1800 to the Present: Art History Reconsidered (2014; reviewed in BR on Oct. 15, 2015), as well as Relational Reality (2011); The Resurgence of the Real (1997); and Lost Goddesses of Early Greece (1978). She also edited an anthology, The Politics of Women's Spirituality (1982). She was a cofounder of the Green Party movement in the United States and a cofounder of two branches of the feminist movement: the women's spirituality movement and ecofeminism.
In the 1970s, a new type of history book appeared, revealing a historical record we had never been taught in school: in numerous prehistoric, Indigenous, and historical cultures around the world, the core spiritual presence was perceived as female and was central to these societies.
