Charlene Spretnak

Charlene Spretnak
Born	1946 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Nationality	American
Occupation	Author, lecturer, academic, environmentalist

Charlene Spretnak (born 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 as an activist and scholar in the 1970's. 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 United Kingdom Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, as one of the "100 Eco-Heroes of All Time." As of 2010 she is a professor of women's spirituality at the California Institute of Integral Studies and a research fellow at the Green Institute.

Further reading

Works by Charlene Spretnak

• Grahn, Judy & Charlene Spretnak. Blood, Bread, and Roses: How Menstruation Created the World. Boston: Beacon Press (1994). ISBN 0-8070-7505-1
• Lost Goddesses of Early Greece: A Collection of Pre-Hellenic Myths. Boston: Beacon Press (1992). ISBN 0-8070-1343-9
• Missing Mary: The Queen of Heaven and Her Re-Emergence in the Modern Church. Basingtoke: Palgrave Macmillan (2005). ISBN 1-4039-7040-8
• The Politics of Women's Spirituality: Essays by Founding Mothers of the Movement. New York: Anchor (1981). ISBN 0-385-17241-9
• Relational Reality: New Discoveries of Interrelatedness That Are Transforming the Modern World. Topsham: Green Horizon Books (2011). ISBN 0-615-46127-1
• The Resurgence of the Real. London: Routledge (1999). ISBN 0-415-92298-4
• The Spiritual Dimension of Green Politics. Rochester: Bear & Co. (1986). ISBN 0-939680-29-7
• States of Grace: The Recovery of Meaning in the Postmodern Age. San Francisco: Harper (1993). ISBN 0-06-250697-8

External links

• Charlene Spretnak's web site
• Works by or about Charlene Spretnak in libraries (WorldCat catalog)