The Goddess In Art TV series: Interview with Miriam Robbins Dexter

The Goddess In Art is a cable TV series that began in 1986 and ran until 1991. Dedicated to the Return of the Goddess, the series explored the legacy of this oldest tradition in art as well as feminist spirituality in contemporary art. The moderator, Starr Goode, interviewed scholars to uncover Her suppressed history and artists who were inspired by a radical re-imagining of the feminine.
A conversation with Goddess scholar extraordinaire Miriam Robbins Dexter. We discuss her invaluable much used book Whence the Goddesses: A Source Book which traces the sources of early historic Indo-European (Greco-Roman, Indic, Iranian, Germanic, Lithuanian, Latvian, Slavic, Irish, and Welsh) goddesses and heroines, beginning with Neolithic iconography and continuing through the iconography and functions of Near Eastern goddesses. An accomplished linguist, Miriam translated texts from all of these cultures, so that the reader has the primary sources for all of these female figures, Miriam speaks of the goal of her work as an honoring of the feminine divine as an important part of radical feminism.
www.women.ucla.edu/faculty/dexter
Whence the Goddesses: A Source Book, Sacred Display
Starr Goode, MA, teaches literature at Santa Monica College. She is producer and moderator for the cable TV series The Goddess in Art. An award-winning writer, she has been profiled for her work as a cultural commentator in such publications as the L.A. Weekly, the Los Angeles Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the New Yorker. Her work on Sheela na gigs can be read in numerous journals and encyclopedias. Her latest book, Sheela na gig: the Dark Goddess of Sacred Power, won the 2018 Sarasvati Award for Best Non-Fiction Book presented by the Association for the Study of Women and Mythology. Her latest article, “The Icon of the Vulva, A Basis of Civilization,” has just been published in The Journal of Archaeomythology, Spring 2021.
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I think this book covers too much of goddesses after the indo-european patriotic influences took hold. Too much warlike imagery and vengeance.