Elinor Gadon Explained
| Elinor W. Gadon |
| Birth Date: | 17 September 1925 |
| Alma Mater: | University of Michigan, B.A. English, 1947; University of Massachusetts, Amherst M.A. History of Art, 1974; University of Chicago, Ph.D. Committee on the History of Culture, 1984 |
| Main Interests: | Cultural history, Art history, Gender studies |
| Awards: | Women's Caucus for Art Lifetime Achievement Award, 2006 |
Elinor W. Gadon (September 17, 1925 – May 8, 2018) was an American cultural historian,[1] Indologist,[2] art historian and author notable for her examination of women in myth and culture in history.[3]
Career
Gadon has taught at several educational institutions, including the Harvard Divinity School and Tufts University, where she was an associate scholar in the Women's Leadership Program. At the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco, she developed and directed a course in women's spirituality.[4] In 2006, she became a resident scholar at Brandeis University's Women's Studies Research Center Scholars Program in Waltham, Massachusetts.[5]
Gadon's research has focused on the analysis of myth and imagery within their specific cultural contexts and how they affect issues of gender.[5] In part due to her major publication, The Once and Future Goddess,[6] she has been compared to other "scholars of the goddess" such as Marija Gimbutas and others associated with the Goddess movement.[7]
Indian art history has been a particular area of interest for Gadon.[8]
Spirituality
Gadon was a proponent of female spirituality, and argued that western-oriented religions have a dearth of female-oriented imagery and symbolism, in contrast to Eastern religions such as Hinduism.[9]
Selected publications
Awards
External links
Notes and References
- News: June 30, 1999. Beverly Beyette. The Los Angeles Times. Wise Women Speak Up on Being Successful, Savvy and 70 Years Old. August 1, 2014. ...Scholar Elinor Gadon, a cultural historian with an interest in women's spirituality....
- Web site: November 14, 1999. MSN TV listings. Cultural historian Elinor Gadon. August 1, 2014.
- News: Jenett, Dianne. Anthropology in China. July 4, 2012. Pongala Ritual at Attukal Temple in Kerala, India. August 1, 2014. ...Elinor Gadon, an Indologist and my academic advisor, is well versed and well traveled in India. August 10, 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20140810131927/http://www.cnanthropology.com/article-475-1.html. dead.
- News: Susan Visvanathan. April 17, 2005. Tradition and modernity. August 1, 2014. The Hindu. Elinor Gadon, the author of that excellent collation of art materials and texts called The Once and Future Goddess, was speaking at the launch of the project.....
- Environmental Ethics. 13. 3. Fall 1991. Max Oelschlaeger. 275–280 . 10.5840/enviroethics19911339. Elinor W. Gadon: The Once and Future Goddess: A Symbol of Our Time (book review). July 12, 2014.
- Book: Fierce Shakti, Fierce Love. 2010. Mari P. Ziolkowski. July 12, 2014. 63. Lulu.com . 9780557888016. As patriarchal forces overturned the goddess cultures, female power became dangerous, even evil....
- Book: Gossips, Gorgons and Crones: The Fates of the Earth. Jane Caputi. 1993. July 12, 2014. 337. Inner Traditions / Bear & Co . 9781879181052. Hindu Shaktu tradition, art historian Elinor Gadon informs us.....
- Web site: University of Chicago. Ph.D.'s Awarded 1979 – 2010. https://web.archive.org/web/20140714124057/http://hum.uchicago.edu/cmtes/histc/phds.html . July 14, 2014. July 12, 2014. An Inconographical Analysis of the Early Krsnabhakti in Gujurat Balagopalastuti, Winter 1984.
- Book: Gary Pacernick. Meaning & Memory: Interviews with Fourteen Jewish Poets. 2001. July 12, 2014. 10. Ohio State University Press . 9780814208793. ..Elinor Gadon calls 'the renewed experience of God the mother'.....
- Book: Laurence Coupe. Routledge. 1997. Myth. July 12, 2014. 175. 9781134107773. Thus, Elinor W. Gadon views the myth of Theseus and the minotaur as a story justifying the destruction of Minoan matriarchy and goddess worship....
- News: Victoria Pynchon. January 9, 2012. Forbes. Femininity, Feminism and the Either/Or Woman: Part 2. July 12, 2014. ...Elinor Gadon’s spectacular treatise The Once and Future Goddess ... synthesizes archeological and anthropological research ... to track the evolution of the feminine identity over the last 12,000 years....
- Valerie Hadden (book reviewer), The Examiner, June 27, 2009. Retrieved July 12, 2014. "The book mixes facts, quotes and stories, and the opinions of the author. The facts are interesting but tend toward dry. Obviously, Ms. Gadon has made a huge effort to get every historical reference scrupulously correct."
- News: Marguerite Rigoglioso. The Aisling Magazine. Awakening to the Godess. August 1, 2014. ...says Elinor Gadon, academic director of the doctoral program in women's spirituality at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco....
- Web site: Scholars Program: Elinor W. Gadon . August 6, 2014. Brandeis University .
- Estella Lauter . Spring–Summer 1991 . Lady of the Beasts: Ancient Images of the Goddess and Her Sacred Animals by Buffie Johnson; The Once and Future Goddess: A Symbol for Our Time by Elinor W. Gadon . Woman's Art Journal . 12 . 1 . 43–45 . 10.2307/1358190. 1358190 .
- Mary Zeiss Stange . Spring–Summer 1993 . The Once and Future Heroine: Paleolithic Goddesses and Popular Imagination . Women's Studies Quarterly . 21 . 1/2 . 55–66 . 40003873 .
- Web site: 2006 National Lifetime Achievement Awards . 9–12 . August 6, 2014 . Women's Caucus for Art . https://web.archive.org/web/20131012235027/http://www.nationalwca.org/LAA/LAA2006.pdf . October 12, 2013 . dead .
- News: Toledo Blade. October 16, 1994. Images of Women in Art, Religion. August 3, 2014. ..Gadon... frustrated by a lack of imagery that resonated with her ideal of womanhood....
