Description | Monica Sjöö 1938-2005 FA/Arch/81 Monica Sjöö: Personal & Misc. and Books Diaries 1994, 1995, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003 File 1 Correspondence (personal) File 2 Manuscript: ‘Spiral Journey’ (unpub) 1984 File 3 Manuscript (annot. xerox) ‘The Norse Goddess’ 1998 File 4 Autobiographical notes; Rebirthing papers (re Sean); ‘The Body Politic’ papers; Annot. Copies of Feminist Archive South ‘Personal Histories of the Second Wave of Feminism’ (vols I & II) File 5 Misc: Festival posters; Pictures & cartoons; Creative writing (not Monica’s); Various publications & papers File 6 Misc: Journals & cuttings including Mama Bears & Lesbian Uprisings
Books: The Girl by Meridel Le Sueur 1978 with inserts Astrological Moon Calendar 1983 Sejd – en vägledning i nordlig shamanism 1985 Catharina av Siena (Kvinnen I Kyrkan 4) 1987 A Herstory of Prostitution in Western Europe by Jess Wells 1982 annot. Efter tusen år av tystnad… by Birgitta Onsell 1994 Jordens Moder i Norden by Birgitta Onsell 1990 Norrlands Forntid – ett historiskt perspektiv by Evert Baudon 1995 Källan till Vattnet by Anders Hult 1991 Alvor Vättar och Andra Väsen by Ebbe Schön 1986 Moder jord och andra mödrar by Kerstin Erdlitz Kuoljok 1999 Gråt inte – Forska! by Karin Westman Berg 1979 Mänsklighetens Problem by Alice A. Bailey 1992 Pornografi – Verklighet eller Fantasi? 1991 Woman in Islam by B. Aisha Lemu & Fatima Heeren 2000 The Rights and Duties of Women in Islam by Abdul Ghaffar Hasan 1999 Islam: The Empowering of Women by Aisha Bewley 1999 The Muslim Woman’s Dress comp. Jamal A Badawi 1999 The Return of Inanna: a Myth for Our Time by Juliet Wimhurst 1994
FA/Arch/82 Monica Sjöö: Feminism/Feminist Politics File 1 Lesbian & Gay Rights CHE (Campaign for Homosexual Equality) File 2 Wages for Housework File 3 Violence Against Women Women & Prison Women & Crime File 4 Bristol WLM Women’s Centre Bristol Women’s House File 5 Equal Rights & Pay Employment Rights Industrial Relations Claimants’ Union File 6 Mothers in Action File 7 Media, Literature – Feminist Publishers & Book Covers (incl. ‘Cosmic Mother’) File 8 Pornography Prostitution Paedophilia & Child Abuse File 9 ‘From the Flames’ (journal) issues 1, 7, 9 (xerox x2), 10, 13, 16 (1991-96) File 10 International Women’s Days, Festival & Year File 11 Woman’s Abortion & Contraception Campaign (started by Monica in Bristol 1971) Abortion Laws Reform File 12 WLM various London 1970s International misc WLM/Women’s Liberation papers File 13 Reproduction & Childbirth Female Circumcision & Surgery File 14 Sexism incl. Miss World File 15 Breaking the Silence/ The End of Patriarchy (1993) Women Speak Out (2001) including issues of ‘Bellow’ File 16 Social Security Family Allowance One-Parent Families incl. SPAN Nurseries & Education
FA/Arch/83 Monica Sjöö: Feminism/Feminist Politics (1-4) General Politics (5-11) File 1 Anarchist-Feminism File 2 Feminism & Socialism Feminism & Religion Feminism & Language File 3 Feminist Journals: Kvinnbulletinen 1/81 (11), 1/83 (13), 5/84 (14) Kvinnovetenskaplig tidskrift 2-1980, 4-1980, 3-1981, 2-1982, 3-1983 Feminist Archive Newsletter Oct 92, Mar 93, Mar 96, Sept 98, May 01, Nov 01, Mar 02 File 4 Women’s Research/Resource Centres incl. Fawcett Library Misc papers (listed separately below) File 5 Freedom issues 11.02.95, 25.02.95, 25.04.95, and annot. excerpt 28.01.95 Anarchy (journals & fliers) Misc: Factsheet on Miners’ Strike; Flier, Coalition Against the Criminal Justice Bill; Cutting (Guardian 25.03.91) ‘The Weak Shall Inherit Nothing’; Cutting (Caduceus Issue 45) ‘Y2K: A Systems View’; British Reclaiming Newsletter issues 5-7 (2001-2) File 6 Racism & Fascism including Suppressed Histories File 7 Politics – Poverty, Human Rights: Africa including Bristol ACTSA Asia: Iran, Afghanistan, Iraq (Middles East generally), India File 8 Politics – Poverty, Human Rights & Ethnic Minorities: North, Central & South America File 9 Politics – Poverty, Human Rights & Ethnic Minorities: Alnesa Issues 1-2; Survival Newsletters 1996-1998
File 10 Politics – Poverty, Human Rights, & Ethnic Minorities: Pacific & Australasia Travellers & Caravan Sites Act Slavery Poverty Human Rights/Civil Rights Refugees Natural Peoples’ News/Native Peoples’ News File 11 Black Politics 1960s-70s including issues of ‘The Black Panther’ and Eldridge Cleaver poster & other cuttings & journals
Misc papers FA/Arch/83, File 4. Details: - 2pp on Women in Portugal c. 1973 - 1p The Great Squat in! Dancing Houses Squatters Group (Nottingham), Sept 1970s - 2x broadsheet ‘Mother Right: A New Feminist Theory’ by Jane Albert (USA) 1970s - Article, Spare Rib, ‘Speaking Out on Age’ by Pauline Long nd (1970s) - Annot. Article ‘Liberties and Celibates: the Peronsalization of Sexuality’ by Rosemary Ruether nd (1970s) - Xeroxed article ‘4th World’ annot. Nd (1970s) - Xeroxed article from Women of Power, Winter/Spring 1986 ‘Feminist Theory’ by Asoka Bandarage - Typed article ‘Women’s Empowerment: the NGO Forum Reaching a Critical Mass’ by Joan Marler & list of audiotapes from NGO 4th World Conference on Women 1995 - Xeroxed paper ‘Sources of the Matrilineal Family System in the Works of Carl J.L. Almqvist’ by Karin Westman Berg (1975) - Xeroxed chapter ‘Women as Innovators’ by WMS Russell, from Biology and Human Affairs Vol 40 No 1 1974 - Newspaper ‘Hurricane Alice’ Vol 10 No 2 Spring 1994: Native Women Writers - Newspaper ‘Off Our Backs’ a Women’s News Journal Vol III No 10 Sept 1973 including abortion, erotic art & feminist counselling - Newspaper ‘Diaspora: Women of Colour Defining Our World’ Issue 1 March 1994 - Magazine ‘EveryWoman’ Feb 1993 including articles on Clinton government, feminism & animal rights, biotechnology & female condom - Journal, Women’s Voice No 31 Dec 1979 (special edition of Dartington Voice) - Papers & cuttings relating to Mary Daly (radical feminist philosopher & theologian) - 2x ‘Oath of the Free Amazons’ with different text on reverse - Papers (typed – annot) & illustrations relating to Louise Michel, Pankhursts & various Russian anarchists - Programme, The power of Women at the Women’s Center (USA) 1974 - Sheet, Women against Racism & Fascism 1978 (Bristol) - Xeroxed cutting, The Guardian 15.11.1972 ‘The Secondary Sex’ - Flier, ‘Why Be a Wife? Marriage – What’s in it for you?’ nd - Cuttings: Evening Post 10.01.01 ‘Welcome to Bristol, Prime Minister’ (demonstrations); Guardian 26.01.94 ‘She swoops in to conquer’ (Katie Roiphe); Guardian 13.09.03 ‘You’ve come a long way, baby’ (The Women’s Room); 4x articles on woman caught shoplifitng 1970s; article (Bristol) about woman sleeping rough (1970s) - Journal, The Unesco Courier Aug-Sept 1975: ‘Turning Point for Women…’ - Papers, ‘Societies in Balance: Gender Equality in Matrilineal Matrifocal Matriarchal Societies.’ World Congress on Matriarchal Studies Sept 5-7 2003
FA/Arch/84 Monica Sjöö: Politics: Green, Anti-War, Anti-Nuclear File 1 Anti-globalisation: WTO GATT Anti-globalisation Network Mulitnationals, Imperialism & Global Culture Anti-globalisation Action File 2 Politics – Green: GM Foods WEN (Women’s Environmental Network) Genetix/Genetics Newsletters McDonalds Other food issues: local, organic, distribution, animal rights File 3 Politics – Green: Biotechnology Monsanto Vandana Shiva biotech articles File 4 Politics – Green: Journals: Green Line (1985-97) Ecologist (copy) Vol 21 No 6 Nov/Dec 1991 Green Egg Vol XXIII No 90 1990 Green Anarchist No 37 Spring 1995 Environment & Health News No 13 No 3 Sept 1998 Green Revolution Issues 2-3 Spring & Autumn 1992 File 5 Politics – Green: Earth First (direct action ) 2001 incl. correspondence Pollution Climate Change Alternative Technology & CAT [Centre for Alternative Technology, Wales] Women and the Environment Greenpeace/Friends of the Earth/Green Party Misc articles & fliers File 6 Politics – War: Iraq, Iran, Israel, East Timor, Afghanistan File 7 Politics – War: Terrorism Peace File 8 Politics – Anti-nuclear Test bans CND Greenham, Aldermaston, Menwith File 9 Politics – Anti-nuclear Nuclear Free and Independent Pacific bulletin 1987-1992
FA/Arch/85 Monica Sjöö: Spirituality File 1 Paganism including ‘Pagan Movement’ & ‘Pipes of Peace’ Witchcraft & Satanism File 2 Glastonbury including Goddess Conference Programmes & Anthony Roberts File 3 Astrology & Lunar Calendars File 4 Shaminism N. American Indians The Fellowship of Isis Temple of Sekhmet Tara Foundation (Tsultrim Allione) File 5 Monica’s own papers: Research notes (including transcript of trance) Fliers, artwork etc relating to exhibitions Writings: ‘New Age Channelings’ (1998) (orig. MS & 2 printed copies) ‘The Ancient Religion of the Great Cosmic Mother of All’ (1975) (x3) ‘New Age, Same Old Story?’ (Everywoman, Dec 1989) ‘New Age or Armageddon?’ (Woman of Power, 1990?) ‘The Glastonbury Goddess Festival, Radical Feminism and Earth-based Spirituality’ (typescript) ‘The New World Order’ (Trivia 19, 1992) File 6 Goddess & Goddessing incl. journals Daughters of the Goddess & Goddessing Regenerated File 7 Sacred Sites & Stones Jill Smith Papers File 8 New Age Papers File 9 Myths, Druids & Religion (broadly)
FA/Arch/86 Monica Sjöö: Spirituality cont. File 1 Journals: Spinning Spiral 1994-97 Arachne 1986-90 Wood & Water 1988-2003 Odinn 1987 Spirit of the Age 1992 File 2 UFOs; Global Consciousness; Psychic & Unusual Experiences; Crystals; Earth Spirits; Wrekin Trust; The Fountain (Sept 87 & Spring 89); Lectorium Rosicrucianum; Norma Milanovich (Galactic Command/Metaphysics); Aetherius Society; Death & Near-Death Studies; Planetary New Jerusalem (Robert Coon 1990) File 3 Crop Circles File 4 Findhorn The Forum (Werner Erhard & est) David Icke Neo-Nazism & Anti-Semitism File 5 Serena Roney-Dougal (Parapsychology) Alice Bailey (esoteric, Christian, theosophical, Arcane school) Alternative Medicine/Healing File 6 Misc. Correspondence File 7 Misc. Articles The Bark Newsletter (The Clan of the Rowan Tree) 13-22 Ancient Ways Newsletter 2000-2003 Ama Mawu (Bristol) Festivals/Camps File 8 Misc Papers, Fliers & Publications
FA/Arch/87 Monica Sjöö: Art File 1 Monica’s Writings incl.: Womanmagic Catalogue x4 Womenculture and Art x2 Images on Womanpower Towards a Revolutionary Feminist Art x2 File 2 Papers Relating to Monica’s Art 1 File 3 Papers Relating to Monica’s Art 2 File 4 Women Artists’ Slide Library File 5 Journals: Paletten (Swedish) File 6 Journals: Feminist Art Journal Women Artists News File 7 Journals: Womansphere Women in Arts Women’s Art Issue (OUTSIZE) The Negro in America’s Art File 8 Misc. art catalogues, fliers, articles & correspondence 1 File 9 Misc. art catalogues, fliers, articles & correspondence 2 File 10 Misc. art catalogues, fliers, articles & correspondence 3 File 11 Misc. art catalogues, fliers, articles & correspondence 4 File 12 Misc. art catalogues, fliers, articles & correspondence 5
FA/Arch/88 Monica Sjöö: Anthropology/Archaeology File 1 Primitive/Prehistoric man File 2 Africa: Kalahari Egyptians Sahara File 3 Berbers File 4 Tamana Migration Papers File 5 (Eur)Asia: Turkey/Hittites Sumerians China Afghanistan Indus Valley Russia Silk Road Canaanites File 6 Nordic & Celtic File 7 Neolithic Goddess/Gods & Heroes (Bronze Age Europe)/Palaeolithic Sculpture/Megaliths/Pagan Religions (Britain) File 8 Ron Williams’s Correspondence & Research on Goddess and Palaeolithic Imagery File 9 Aegean/Mediterranean: Create/Minoan Malta Greece incl. goddess & costume Etruscans Carthage File 10 Palau Islands & Australasia File 11 N & S America Sarah Cuthill, April 2009 |