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DISSERTATION STRUCTURE, Eller: The Feminist Spirituality Movement in North…
DISSERTATION STRUCTURE
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THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS: A GYNERGENETIC EXPERIENCE CONFERENCE (1976, BOSTON)
INTRO
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- lesbian feminism meets new age/esoteric/occult spirituality
- emerging movement which offers an alternative from lesbian and women's movement with socialist origins and national ties
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- a conflict at the conference breaks out which is described in news sources as a controversial "split" between the spiritual and the political and two groups who they describe as the spiritualists and the politicalists.
- The two groups are presented as polar opposites, two choices.
- Those who write about the conference are bewildered by the spiritualists, so perhaps this clouds their judgment.
- Crowley sees this as a brewing split between the spiritual and the political,
- Enszer does not agree with the assessment of a split and argues that it's more likely that the attendees existed on a larger contiuum in response, my chapter looks for this larger continuum.
- Enszer also identifies the conference as emerging from lesbian feminist and "cultural feminist" contexts, placing the term "cultural feminism" under examination as a category used to displace lesbian-feminist theories and practices. In response, my work, inspired by Enszer's redefinitions of cultural feminism and more widely embraced impulses to historicize lesbian feminist activism and community building in an arts and publshing context, uses primary sources to tell the story of this conference from this standpoint 📍
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PAULA GUNN ALLEN'S GYNOSOPHIC GATHERINGS AT MAMA BEARS BOOKSTORE (DATE-DATE, OAKLAND, CA)
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