![]() ![]() But while this well-ordered survey exhibition, with its table vitrines and bright lighting, successfully conveys how she was a leading light within a vibrant sisterhood of second-wave feminists, it took too few of the risks that would be necessary to bring her work to life, instead making it seem all too disinfected and bloodless. What is most intriguing about her work from this vantage point are arguably the complex individual and group rituals she orchestrated, using text, singing, fire, sounds of the sea and of thunder to harness female cosmic energy, espousing an attitude that was then and still largely is now heretical to the MFA brigade. Mary Beth Edelson (*1933) is in some circles known above all as an enthusiastic champion of the neopaganistic Goddess movement, whose key text, “Why Women Need the Goddess,” appeared in 1978 in Heresies magazine, published by the eponymous collective Edelson had cofounded two years earlier. ![]()
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