Elinor Gadon

Elinor W. Gadon
Awards Women's Caucus for Art Lifetime Achievement Award, 2006
Academic background
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
Academic work
Main interests Cultural history, Art history, Gender studies

Elinor W. Gadon, is an American cultural historian,[1][2] Indologist,[3][4] art historian, and author notable for her examination of women in myth and culture in history.[5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12]

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.[13] In 2006, she became a Resident Scholar at Brandeis University's Women's Studies Research Center Scholars Program in Waltham, Massachusetts.[14]

Gadon's research has focused on the analysis of myth and imagery within their specific cultural contexts and how they affect issues of gender.[14] In part due to her major publication, The Once and Future Goddess,[15] she has been compared to other "scholars of the goddess" such as Marija Gimbutas and others associated with the Goddess movement.[16]

Indian art history has been a particular area of interest for Gadon.[17]

Spirituality

Whether they are practicing their spirituality alone, in groups, or in their synagogues or churches of origin, women of the movement are focusing on exploring the sacredness of the female body, sexuality, and women's experience.
— Elinor Gadon[13]

Gadon is 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.[18]

Women in particular feel that within organized religion, there isn't any honor of what they hold sacred: the life process, the birth of their children, their sexual experiences.
— Elinor Gadon, 2003[19]

Selected publications

Awards

References

  1. ↑ June 30, 1999, BEVERLY BEYETTE, TIMES STAFF WRITER, Los Angeles Times, Wise Women Speak Up on Being Successful, Savvy and 70 Years Old, Accessed August 1, 2014, "...Scholar Elinor Gadon, a cultural historian with an interest in women's spirituality..."
  2. ↑ November 14, 1999, TV.msn.com (listings) Cultural historian Elinor Gadon, Accessed Aug. 1, 2014
  3. ↑ Jenett, Dianne, July 4, 2012, Anthropology in China, Pongala Ritual at Attukal Temple in Kerala, India, Accessed August 1, 2014, "...Elinor Gadon, an Indologist and my academic advisor, is well versed and well traveled in India..."
  4. ↑ SUSAN VISVANATHAN, April 17, 2005, The Hindu Magazine, Tradition and modernity, Accessed Aug. 1, 2014, "..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...."
  5. ↑ Environmental Ethics, Volume 13, Issue 3, Fall 1991, Max Oelschlaeger, Pages 275-280, DOI: 10.5840/enviroethics19911339, Elinor W. Gadon: The Once and Future Goddess: A Symbol of Our Time (book review), Accessed July 12, 2014, Fall 1991, page 275, "...book is lavishly illustrated..."
  6. ↑ Fierce Shakti, Fierce Love, 2010, Mari P. Ziolkowski (book author), , Accessed July 12, 2014, (see page 63) "...As patriarchal forces overturned the goddess cultures, female power became dangerous, even evil..."
  7. ↑ Gossips, Gorgons and Crones: The Fates of the Earth, Jane Caputi, 1993, , Accessed July 12, 2014, (see page 337) "..Hindu Shaktu tradition, art historian Elinor Gadon informs us...."
  8. ↑ University of Chicago, Ph.D.'s Awarded 1979 - 2010, Accessed July 12, 2014, "...An Inconographical Analysis of the Early Krsnabhakti in Gujurat Balagopalastuti, Winter 1984..."
  9. ↑ Gary Pacernick, Meaning & Memory: Interviews with Fourteen Jewish Poets, Accessed July 12, 2014, (see page 10) "..Elinor Gadon calls 'the renewed experience of God the mother'...."
  10. ↑ Laurence Coupe, published by Routledge, 1997 and 1999, Myth, Accessed July 12, 2014, (see page 175) "...Thus, Elinor W. Gadon views the myth of Theseus and the minotaur as a story justifying the destruction of Minoan matriarchy and goddess worship..."
  11. ↑ Victoria Pynchon, January 9, 2012, Forbes Magazine, Femininity, Feminism and the Either/Or Woman: Part 2, Accessed 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..."
  12. ↑ Valerie Hadden (book reviewer), June 27, 2009, Examiner, Accessed 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. ..."
  13. 1 2 Marguerite Rigoglioso, Aisling Magazine, Awakening to the Godess, Accessed Aug. 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..."
  14. 1 2 "Scholars Program: Elinor W. Gadon". Brandeis University. Retrieved 2014-08-06.
  15. ↑ 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. doi:10.2307/1358190. JSTOR 1358190.
  16. ↑ 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. JSTOR 40003873.
  17. 1 2 "2006 National Lifetime Achievement Awards" (PDF). Women's Caucus for Art. pp. 9–12. Retrieved 2014-08-06.
  18. ↑ Staff writers, Toledo Blade, October 16, 1994, Images of Women in Art, Religion, Accessed August 3, 2014, "..Gadon... frustrated by a lack of imagery that resonated with her ideal of womanhood..."
  19. ↑ Don Aucoin, July 20, 2003, Boston Globe, reprinted in the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, Something Sexy About Stonehenge, Accessed Aug. 1, 2014

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