Max Dashu founded the Suppressed Histories Archives in 1970 to research and document global women's history, across the full spectrum of the world's peoples. She has built a collection of 40,000 slides and digital images, from which she has created 130 slideshows on female cultural heritages, including Indigenous traditions and with attention to the patterns of conquest. Dashu has been presenting her visual talks for 44 years, at universities, conferences, museums, community centers, bookstores, galleries, libraries and schools, in North America, Italy, Belgium, Germany, Ireland, Britain, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Austria, Bulgaria, Australia, Mexico and Guatemala. Her legendary slideshows bring to light female realities usually hidden from view, from ancient female figurines to women leaders, priestesses, clan mothers, philosophers, warriors and rebels. Her use of images to teach, scanning the cultural record-archaeology, history, art, orature, linguistics, and spiritual philosophies-makes this knowledge more accessible and bridges the gap between academia and grassroots education. Her daily posts on the Suppressed Histories Facebook page are followed by over 156,000 people, and some 40,000 more have viewed her articles on Academia.edu. She also teaches via webcasts and online courses. Dashu is internationally known for her expertise on ancient female iconography and female spheres of power; matricultures and patriarchal systems, medicine women, shamans and witches, and witch hunting. Her visual talks include titles such as The Cosmic Weaver; Dangerous Women: They Fight Back; Mother-Right; Rebel Shamans: Women Confront Empire; Ancient Treasures of African Women; Magna Mater and Isis of 10,000 Names: Syncretism under the Roman Empire; Deasophy; The Distaff: Goddess, Fates, and Women's Power; Racism, History and Lies; Taming the Female Body; Amazons and Women Warriors; Grandmother Stones of Megalithic Europe; Medicine Women of the Americas, and The Wu: female shamans of ancient China. Max Dashu has keynoted at many conferences: Feminism in London (2015); Women's Voices for a Change at Skidmore, NY (2013); Association for the Study of Women and Mythology conference, Bangor PA (2010); the Pagan Studies Conference at Claremont Graduate University, CA (2008); Coalition for Battered Women conference at Rutgers NJ (2005); and the Institute of Archaeomythology conference in Rila, Bulgaria (2004), among others. She has presented at the Women's Centers of Northwestern University, Stanford, Princeton, University of California at Berkeley and many others, and at Trinity College in Dublin, the Museo de San Miguel de Allende, the Frauenmuseum (Wiesbaden), and the State Library of Queensland.
"A monumental moment in women's history, as well as Pagan history,
is upon us, with the release of Max Dashu's new book Witches and
Pagans. Over 40 years; worth of research and effort created this
book, and its companion volumes to follow. It's a landmark work,
easily the most important new Pagan title of the year, if not the
decade." --Yeshe Matthews, Mothers of New Time"Max Dash� writes
with lucidity and a compelling awareness of the silencing of women
in male-centered cultures--especially women's silencing in
patriarchal religion. Max has spent decades excavating the
exceptionally rich materials--linguistic, archaeological,
mythological--found in this book, and uncovering clues to the
spiritual spheres of pre-patriarchal women. A true tour de force!"
-- Miriam Robbins Dexter, UCLA professor of Indo-European studies
and author of Whence the Goddesses: a Source Book"Reading this book
is like opening a box filled with jewels left to you by ancestors
you never knew you had. Women preserved ancient mysteries that
celebrated female powers of creativity as they went about the tasks
of their daily lives. It was not so easy to stamp these practices
out, because women understood their songs and rituals to be
essential for the continued flourishing of life... Brilliant work.
May it change the way we see the world!" --Carol Christ, author of
Goddess and God in the World: Conversations in Embodied
Theology"Dashu has done her homework, and has unearthed,
uncovered
and rediscovered a remarkable
amount of information pertaining to
women's roles in folk religion, magic, witchcraft, healing and
seership during the medieval era. ... ... This book is unlike any
book by a Neopagan author on these particular topics that
I have
seen (other
than perhaps Ronald Hutton), in its scope, the breadth
of materials presented, and in providing access to
an incredible
amount of unusual sources of historical materials that would be of
great interest to modern pagans, witches, seers and herbwives. ...
I have rarely, if ever, seen a book on these topics that went so
far into the traditions, explored them so widely and deeply, and
provided a truly unique window into our spiritual past with such
care and intelligence. Well-written, and a one-of-a-kind
resource... a treasure trove... highly recommended." --Sharon Paice
MacLeod, Sagewomen Journal "The book is amazing; I am so impressed
with the amount of scholarship you have sloughed through, and how
hard it must have been to put all this together. All kudos to you,
Max for the gifts of research and knowledge and vision." Gloria
Orenstein, Professor Emerita of Comparative Literature and Gender
Studies, University of Southern California
"Such a beautiful and academic read. Margin note taking and really
absorbing the ethnohistorical references. Max Dashu, brava! Cannot
wait for the next volume!!!" --Mercedes Draffin
"It's such a beautiful book, a work of art, so well done. An
immense contribution." --Gilby Farnsworth
"I've been looking forward to the release of Witches and Pagans:
Women in European Folk Religion by Max Dashu; this promises to be
an important addition to the field, as it reweaves women's roles
back into history". --Jhenah Telyndru August 2, 2016
"I have a huge amount of respect and admiration for your work.
Witches and Pagans is a treasure-trove of of suppressed and lost
information, lost no more thanks to you! -- Mary Mackey, author of
The Year the Horses Came and the Earthsong Trilogy
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