About Charlene Spretnak

Charlene Spretnak is the author of several books on ecological and relational thought, cultural history, spirituality and religion, feminism, the problems of modernity, and contemporary events. These include GREEN POLITICS: The Global Promise (principle coauthor); THE SPIRITUAL DIMENSION OF GREEN POLITICS; STATES OF GRACE: The Recovery of Meaning in the Postmodern Age; THE RESURGENCE OF THE REAL: Body, Nature, and Place in a Hypermodern World; and RELATIONAL REALITY. She is also author of MISSING MARY and LOST GODDESSES OF EARLY GREECE, as well as editor of an anthology, THE POLITICS OF WOMEN'S SPIRITUALITY. Her most recent book is a work of cultural history: THE SPIRITUAL DYNAMIC IN MODERN ART: Art History Reconsidered, 1800 to the Present. She was one of the initial theorists of the women's spirituality movement in the 1970s and was a co-founder of the Green Party movement in the United States in the 1980s. She was inducted into the Ohio Women's Hall of Fame in 1989 for her writings on social activism and spirituality. In 2006 she was named by the Environment Department of the British government one of the "100 Eco-Heroes of All Time." In 2012 she received the Demeter Award for lifetime achievement as "one of the premier visionary feminist thinkers of our time" from the Association for the Study of Women and Mythology. She was raised in Ohio and now resides with her husband in California