#monica sjoo

[woman-for-women]

#w4w post #quotes #feminism #feminist #monica sjoo #barbara mor #anthropology #fire #women and fire

[cute-st]

“You can’t beat us, but you can beat your women”

The Great Cosmic Mother | Monica Sjöö & Barbara Mor.

#Barbara Mor #Monica Sjoo #the great cosmic mother #patriarchy #indigenous people #gender wars #imperialism #misogynoir #misogony #black manosphere #femicide

[lvdbbooks]

2022年5月30日

【新入荷・新本】

Monica Sjöö: artist, activist, writer, mother, warrior, Legion Projects, 2022

76 pages. 250 x 180mm. Printed in colour.

価格：3,080円（税込）

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スウェーデン出身の画家、活動家、作家、フェミニストであるモニカ・スー（Monica Sjöö）の作品集。女神運動に初期から関わり、フェミニストアートマニフェスト「Towards a Revolutionary Feminist Art 」（1971年）に名を連ねる作家の活動を概観する稀少なZine。彼女の政治的な活動、神話や土地との関係は、絵画、コラージュ、ドローイングなど、彼女のすべての芸術の中に存在しています。

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Swedish Monica Sjöö was a prolific artist who spent most of her life in the UK, where she became a central figure in spiritual feminist circles such as the Goddess movement. She dedicated her life to fighting injustice and was an active member of grassroots initiatives throughout her life, including Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp. Her political activism and relationship to myth and land is present in all of her art, which included painting, collage and drawing. This zine is an introduction to Monica's work, and is intended to recognise her important contribution to art, activism and spirituality in the UK and internationally.

The publication features full colour reproductions of her work and includes contextualising essays by Legion Projects, Ruth Lindley, Sue Tate, Rupert White, as well as Monica’s own writings.

#Monica Sjoo #Monica Sjöö #Legion Projects

[lacangri21]

The Feminist Library

-7000 Years of Patriarchy by Petra Ioana

-A Deafening Silence by Patrizia Romito

-Against Our Will by Susan Brownmiller

-Against Pornography by Diana E.H. Russell

-Against Sadomasochism by Robin Linden

-Ain’t I a Woman by Bell Hooks

-All Women Are Healers by Diane Stein

-Anti-Porn by Julia Long

-Anticlimax by Sheila Jeffreys

-Are Women Human by Catharine MacKinnon

-Backlash by Susan Faludi

-Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay

-Beauty and Misogyny by Sheila Jeffreys

-Beauty Sick by Renee Engeln

-Beauty Under the Knife by Holly Brubach

-Being and Being Bought by Kasja Ekis Ekman

-Beyond God the Father by Mary Daly

-Big Porn Inc by Melinda Tankard Reist and Abigail Bray

-Blood, Bread, and Roses by Judy Graham

-The Book of Women’s Mysteries by Z Budapest

-Borderlands by Gloria Anzaldua

-Burn it Down by Lilly Dancyger

-Butterfly Politics by Catharine MacKinnon

-Caliban and the Witch by Silvia Federici

-Choosing to Conform by Avelie Stuart

-The Church and the Second Sex by Mary Daly

-Cinderella Ate My Daughter by Peggy Orenstein

-Close to Home by Christine Delphy

-Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence by Adrienne Rich

-Conquest by Andrea Lee Smith

-Damned Whores and God’s Police by Anne Summers

-Daring to Be Bad by Alice Echols

-Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers by Sady Doyle

-Defending Battered Women on Trial by Elizabeth A. Sheehy

-Deliver Us from Love by Brogger

-Delusions of Gender by Cordelia Fine

-Detransition by Max Robinson

-The Disappearing L by Bonnie J. Morris

-Does God Hate Women by Ophelia Benson

-Doing Harm by Maya Dusenbery

-The End of Gender by Debra W. Soh

-The End of Patriarchy by Robert Jensen?

-Female Chauvinist Pigs by Ariel Levy

-Female Erasure by Ruth Barrett

-Female Sexual Slavery by Kathleen Barry

-Femicide by Jill Radford and Diane EH Russell

-Femininity by Susan Brownmiller

-Femininity and Domination by Sandra Lee Bartky

-Feminism Unmodified by Catharine MacKinnon

-Feminist Theory by Bell Hooks

-Firebrand Feminism by Breanne Fahs

-Flesh Wounds by Blum

-Flow by Elissa Stein and Susan Kim

-For Her Own Good by Barbara Ehrenreich

-For Lesbians Only by Sarah Lucia Hoagland

-Freedom Fallacy by Miranda Kiraly

-Gender Hurts by Sheila Jeffreys

-Getting Off by Robert Jensen?

-Global Woman by Barbara Ehrenreich

-Going Out of Our Minds by Sonia Johnson

-Going Too Far by Robin Morgan

-The Great Cosmic Mother by Monica Sjoo and Barbara Mor

-Gyn/Ecology by Mary Daly

-Gynocide by Mariarosa Dalta Costa

-Handbook of Feminist Therapy by Lynne Bravo Rosewater and Leonore E.A. Walker

-Heartbreak by Andrea Dworkin

-Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado

-The Hidden Malpractice by Gena Corea

-How to Suppress Women’s Writing by Joanna Russ

-I Am Your Sister by Audre Lorde

-I Hate Men by Pauline Harmange

-Ice and Fire by Andrea Dworkin

-In Defense of Separatism by Susan Hawthorne

-In Harm’s Way by Catharine MacKinnon

-In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens by Alice Walker

-The Industrial Vagina by Sheila Jeffreys

-Inferior by Angela Saini

-Intercourse by Andrea Dworkin

-Invisible No More by Andrea J. Ritchie

-Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez

-Jewish Radical Feminism by Joyce Antler

-Kill All Normies by Angela Nagle

-The Laugh of Medusa by Helene Cixous

-Laughing with Medusa by Vanda Zajko and Miriam Leonard

-The Lesbian Heresy by Sheila Jeffreys

-Lesbian Nation by Jill Johnston

-Letters from a War Zone by Andrea Dworkin

-Love and Politics by Carol Anne Douglas

-Loving to Survive by Dee Graham

-Making Violence Sexy by Diana E.H. Russell

-Man Made Language by Dale Spender

-Man’s Dominion by Sheila Jeffreys

-Medical Bondage by Deirdre Cooper Owens

-Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit

-Men Who Buy Sex by Melissa Farley

-Men Who Hate Women by Laura Bates

-Men Who Hate Women and the Women Who Love Them by Susan Forward

-Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur

-Misogyny by Jack Holland?

-The New Handbook for a Post-Roe America by Robin Marty

-Nobody’s Victim by Carrie Goldberg

-Not a Job, Not a Choice by Janice Raymond

-Not for Sale by Rebecca Whisnant

-Nothing Matters by Somer Brodribb

-Objectification Theory by Barbara I. Fredrickson

-Of Woman Born by Adrienne Rich

-Only Words by Catharine MacKinnon

-Our Blood by Andrea Dworkin

-Our Bodies, Ourselves by Boston Women’s Health Book Collective

-Overcoming Violence Against Women and Girls by Michael L. Penn and Rahel Nardos?

-Paid For by Rachel Moran

-The Pimping of Prostitution by Julie Bindel

-Pimp State by Kat Banyard

-Policing the Womb by Michelle Goodwin

-Pornified by Pamela Paul

-Pornland by Gail Dines

-Pornography by Gail Dines

-Pornography: Men Possessing Women by Andrea Dworkin

-Pornography and Civil Rights by Andrea Dworkin and Catharine MacKinnon

-Pornography and Violence by Susan Griffith

-Pornography Values by Robert Jensen?

-Pure Lust by Mary Daly

-The Purify Myth by Jessica Valenti

-Quiverfull by Kathryn Joyce

-Radical Feminism Today by Denise Thompson

-Radical Feminist Therapy by Bonnie Burstow

-Radical Reckonings by Renate Klein

-Radically Speaking by Diane Bell...

-Rape by Susan Griffiths

-Rape in Marriage by Diana E.H. Russell

-Rape of the Wild by Ann Jones

-Refusing to Be a Man by John Stoltenberg?

-Right-Wing Woman by Andrea Dworkin

-A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf

-Runaway Wives and Rogue Feminists by Margo Goodhand

-SCUM Manifesto by Valerie Solanas

-Selling Feminism by Amanda M. Gengler

-Sex Matters by Alyson J. McGregor

-Sexual Harassment of Working Women by Catharine MacKinnon

-Sexual Politics by Kate Millett

-Sexy but Psycho by Jessica Taylor

-She Dreams When She Bleeds by Nikki Taraji

-Sister Outrider by Audre Lorde

-Sisterhood is Forever by Robin Morgan

-Sisterhood is Global by Robin Morgan

-Sisterhood is Powerful by Robin Morgan

-Slavery Inc by Lydia Cacho

-Spinning and Weaving by Elizabeth Miller

-Surrogacy by Renate Klein

-Sweetening the Pill by Holly Grigg-Spall

-Taking Back the Night by Laura Lederer

-Talking Back by Bell Hooks

-Testosterone Rex by Cordelia Fine

-The Beauty Myth by Naomi Wolf

-The Creation of Patriarchy by Gerda Lerner

-The Dialectic of Sex by Shulamith Firestone

-The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan

-The First Sex by Elizabeth Gould

-The Legacy of Mothers: Matriarchies and the Gift Economy as Post-Capitalist Alternatives by Erella Shadmi

-The Lolita Effect by Gigi Durham

-The Man-Made World by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The Porn Trap by Wendy Maltz

-The Prostitution of Sexuality by Kathleen Barry

-The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir

-The Sexual Liberals and the Attack on Feminism by Janice Raymond...

-The Spinster and Her Enemies by Sheila Jeffreys

-The Transsexual Empire by Janice Raymond

-The Women’s History of the World by Rosalind Miles

-This Bridge Called My Back by Gloria Anzaldua

-This is Your Brain on Birth Control by Sarah Hill

-Toward a Feminist Theory of the State by Catharine MacKinnon

-The Traffic in Women and Other Essays by Emma Goldman

-Trans by Helen Joyce

-Unbearable Weight by Susan Bordo

-Unpacking Queer Politics by Sheila Jeffreys

-Unscrewed by Jaclyn Friedman

-Unwell Women by Elinor Cleghorn

-The Unwomanly Face of War by Svetlana Alexievich

-The Vagina Bible by Jennifer Gunter

-A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft

-The War Against Women by Marilyn French

-We Were Feminists Once by Andi Zeisler

-What Do We Need Men For by E. Jean Carroll

-When God was a Woman by Merlin Stone

-Who Cooked the Last Supper by Rosalind Miles

-Why Does He Do That by Lundy Bancroft

-Why Women Are Blamed for Everything by Jessica Taylor

-Why Women Need the Goddess by Carol P. Christ

-Wildfire by Sonia Johnson

-Witches, Midwives, and Nurses by Barbara Ehrenreich

-Witches, Witch Hunting, and Women by Silvia Federici

-Woman and Nature by Susan Griffith

-Woman Hating by Andrea Dworkin

-Woman-Identified Woman by Trudy Darty

-Women v. Religion by Karen L. Garst

-Women’s Lives, Men’s Laws by Catharine MacKinnon

-The Women’s Room by Marilyn French

#booklist #masterpost #feminism #knowledge #my favorites #original post

[innervoiceartblog]

Magic Circle by John William Waterhouse

"The witch burnings didn't take place during the "Dark Ages" as we commonly suppose. They occurred between the 15th and 18th centuries - precisely during and following the Rennaisance, that glorious period when, as we are taught, "men's" minds were being freed from bleakness and superstition. While Michelangelo was sculpting and Shakespeare writing, witches (mainly elderly women) were burning. The whole secular "Enlightenment" in fact, the male professions of doctor, lawyer, judge, artist, all rose from the ashes of destroyed women's culture. Renaissance men were celebrating naked female beauty in their art, while women's bodies were being tortured and burned by the hundreds of thousands all around them."

- The Great Cosmic Mother - Monica Sjoo and Barbara Mor

#Magic Circle #JW Waterhouse #john william waterhouse #art and soul #myth #archetypes #witch #spell #ritual #sorceress

[returning-to-her]

Book - The Great Cosmic Mother

Rediscovering the religion of the earth, by Monica Sjoo and Barbara Mor. This classic exploration of the Goddess through time and throughout the world draws on religious, cultural, and archaeological sources to recreate the Goddess religion that is humanity’s heritage. Now, with a new introduction and full-colour artwork, this passionate and important text shows even more clearly that the…

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[laughingmaidenarising]

hello!! i’ve been feeling really called to deanism but i’ve always been a little intimidated by it, since i was raised in an orthodox christian household, so this is a complete change of pace for me. i absolutely adore your blog, and i was wondering if you had any advice on where to start? thank you so much, love and blessings!!

Hello! I would suggest you begin reading books on the Goddess and Her nature! Such as The Great Cosmic Mother: Rediscovering the Religion of the Earth by Monica Sjoo. It's one of my favorites. Of course, when you read these books it's important to take everything with a slight grain of salt, but I think they an be very eye opening. If you'd like a few more recommendations I'd be happy to make a separate post of all my recs.

If you are in a place where you are able to, setting up an altar can be beneficial. It could simply be a little figurine or statue that you associate the Goddess with, and a candle. Setting small offerings before Her is a great way to connect.

Do your research, and be thorough. But also, don't be discouraged if you see one person saying something is incorrect to do in your worship and another says it's completely fine. As long as you aren't doing anything dangerous or harmful, or dabbling in closed practices or religions you are free to worship the Goddess as she appears to you :)

If you have any more questions feel free to reach out!

#asks

[semtituloh]

Via Diane Horton Intuitive Reader

"Ancient moon priestesses were called virgins. “Virgin” meant not married, not belonging to a man—a woman who was “one-in-herself.” The very word derives from a Latin root meaning strength, force, skill; and was later applied to men: virile.

Ishtar, Diana, Astarte, Isis were all called virgin, which did not refer to sexual chastity, but sexual independence. And all great culture heroes of the past, mythic or historic, were said to be born of virgin mothers: Marduk, Gilgamesh, Buddha, Osiris, Dionysus, Genghis Khan, Jesus—they were all affirmed as sons of the Great Mother, of the Original One, their worldly power deriving from her. When the Hebrews used the word, and in the original Aramaic, it meant “maiden” or “young woman,” with no connotations of sexual chastity.

But later Christian translators could not conceive of the “Virgin Mary” as a woman of independent sexuality, needless to say; they distorted the meaning into sexually pure, chaste, never touched. When Joan of Arc, with her witch coven associations, was called La Pucelle—“the Maiden,” “the Virgin”—the word retained some of its original Pagan sense of a strong and independent woman."

- The Great Cosmic Mother, Monica Sjoo and Barbara Mor -

[artlimited]

Monica Sjöö | The Great Cosmic Mother https://www.artlimited.net/agenda/monica-sjoo-the-great-cosmic-mother-exhibition-moderna-museet/en/7585582

[woman-for-women]

#monica sjoo #Barbara Mor #w4w post #quotes #feminism #feminist #witches #witch hunts

[charismaandcashmere]

Colonialist powers really convince themselves that they are doing their victims a favor, lifting them up from Mother Earth, through whips, degradations, imprisonments, hunger, and slaughter—so they can glimpse through tears a far-off shining palace, the abode of the heavenly Father (i.e., the exploiting home country). Imperialist colonialism always sees itself, officially, as an instrument of spiritual enlightenment. What this means in practice is that the Mother—the people’s blood identity—is denounced, in the name of some superior Father God, who always happens to live somewhere else.

--The Great Cosmic Mother: Rediscovering the Religion of the Earth by Monica Sjoo and Barbara Mor

#The great cosmic mother #reading #colonialism #religion

[nj-stone]

Astrology, Apr 7, 2024. Dark Matter, by @LouiseEdington https://open.substack.com/pub/cosmicowlastrology/p/astrology-apr-7-2024-dark-matter

[rebeleden]

The Great Cosmic Mother: Rediscovering The Religion Of The Earth by Monica Sjoo (7-Nov-1991) Paperback https://a.co/d/cxcQ7uk

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STOP VANILLA ISIS

[lacangri21]

Masterpost: The New Bible

Non-patriarchal and non-feminine-as-receptive bullshit.

1. When God Was a Woman by Merlin Stone

2. Who Cooked the Last Supper by Rosalind Miles (not exclusively spiritual)

3. The Great Cosmic Mother by Monica Sjoo and Barbara Mor

4. She Dreams When She Bleeds by Nikki Taraji

5. Songs of Bleeding by Spider

6. All Women Are Healers by Diane Stein (I don’t remember if there is any “feminine/masculine” in this book.  I have to check back)

7. Beyond God the Father by Mary Daly (not exclusively spiritual, much of it is a critique of patriarchal religion)

8. Grandmothers of the Light by Paula Gunn Allen

9. The Holy Book of Women’s Mysteries by Z Budapest

10. The Sacred Hoop by Paula Gunn Allen

TBC

#the new bible #thealogy #goddess #masterpost #booklist #feminism

[roelofsart]

SHEELA NA GIG, CREATION, 1978 Monica Sjöö

From “Through Time and Space: The Ancient Sisterhoods Spoke to Me”

Moderna Museet Stockholm June 2023

https://guide.modernamuseet.se/stockholm/en/collection/monica-sjoo/sheela-na-gig-skapelse/

#art

[womensarts-blog]

God giving Birth, 1968 by Swedish artist Monica Sjöö ♀️

#women artists #women's art #women history month #womenhistorymonth #monica sjöö #monica sjoo #swedish artist #god giving birth #1968