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aims to uncover the realities of women's
lives, internationally and across time, asking questions about patriarchy
and slavery, conquest and
aboriginality. About mother-right,
goddess veneration, animist spirituality
and shamanic arts -- and the
historical chemistry of their repression. Even more important, their
role in resisting oppression.
A global perspective on women’s
history offers fresh and diverse conceptions of women's power, as
well as of men and gender borders. It overturns stereotypes of race
and class, and the structures of domination that hold them up. It
digs under the usual story of lords and rulers, looking for hidden
strands, and reweaves knowledge from the divided fields of history,
archaeology, linguistics and folk
tradition.
So we cast a wide arc,
looking for patterns and gaps and contradictions which, where vested
power interests are at stake, are often trigger points for controversy.
Some of the flashpoints are
neolithic female figurines; women's
power;goddess reverence; gender-egalitarian
mother-right
cultures; the origins of
patriarchy; witch-hunts;
and the rise and fall of empires,
with all their doctrines of supremacy and inferiority.
Click arrow to view video clip :: Female Liberators and Revolutionaries ::
from the new Women's Power dvd by Max Dashu
Max Dashu
founded the Suppressed Histories Archives in 1970 to research women's
history on an international scale. She has built a collection of over
14,000 slides and 100 shows. For descriptions of her Suppressed Histories
Series, see the Presentations
pages.
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