Charlene Spretnak

Charlene Spretnak

Charlene Spretnak (born 1946 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an author, activist, academic and feminist credited with pioneering work in ecological thought and social criticism. She has contributed to the framing of the women's spirituality, ecofeminist and Green politics movements. Spretnak has also written three books on ecological politics and ecophilosophy. She is the principal co-author of Green Politics: The Global Promise, which was a catalyst for the forming of the Green Party of the United States. She was a co-founder of the party itself.

Spretnak teaches in the philosophy and religion department at the California Institute of Integral Studies, an independent graduate institute in San Francisco, California.

Books by Charlene Spretnak

  • Green Politics: The Global Promise with Fritjof Capra, Dutton, 1984
  • Missing Mary: The Queen of Heaven and Her Re-Emergence in the Modern Church
  • The Resurgence of the Real: Body, Nature, and Place in a Hypermodern World
  • States of Grace: Spiritual Grounding in the Postmodern Age' 1993
  • The Politics of Women's Spirituality : Essays by Founding Mothers of the Movement
  • Lost Goddesses of Early Greece: A Collection of Pre-Hellenic Myths
  • The Spiritual Dimension of Green Politics

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