Charlene Spretnak (b. 1946) is an American author, activist, academic, and feminist. Born in 1946 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Spretnak was raised in Columbus, Ohio. She earned her B.A. from St. Louis University and her M.A. in English and American literature from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1981. Spretnak began her professional career in the 1970s as an activist and scholar. In 1989 she was inducted into the Ohio Women's Hall of Fame for her writings on spirituality and social justice. In 2006, she was named by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, in the United Kingdom, as one of the "100 Eco-Heroes of All Time." As of 2010 she is a professor of women's spirituality[clarification needed] at the California Institute for Integral Studies and a research fellow at the Green Institute.[1]
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- Grahn, Judy & Charlene Spretnak. Blood, Bread, and Roses: How Menstruation Created the World. Boston: Beacon Press (1994). ISBN 0807075051
- Lost Goddesses of Early Greece: A Collection of Pre-Hellenic Myths. Boston: Beacon Press (1992). ISBN 0807013439
- Missing Mary: The Queen of Heaven and Her Re-Emergence in the Modern Church. Basingtoke: Palgrave Macmillan (2005). ISBN 1403970408
- The Politics of Women's Spirituality: Essays by Founding Mothers of the Movement. New York: Anchor (1981). ISBN 0385172419
- Relational Reality: New Discoveries of Interrelatedness That Are Transforming the Modern World. Topsham: Green Horizon Books (2011). ISBN 0615461271
- The Resurgence of the Real. London: Routledge (1999). ISBN 0415922984
- The Spiritual Dimension of Green Politics. Rochester: Bear & Co. (1986). ISBN 0939680297
- States of Grace: The Recovery of Meaning in the Postmodern Age. San Francisco: Harper (1993). ISBN 0062506978
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