Chapter 5 Searching for Old Europe

This chapter describes the development of radical/cultural feminist ideas in the U.S. and the rise of the Goddess movement, focusing on the importance that the movement placed on narratives of prehistory. It positions Gimbutas’ works on Old Europe at the cultural moment of women’s liberation in the...

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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-1218242025-03-12T16:02:23Z Chapter 5 Searching for Old Europe Navickaitė, Rasa Marija Gimbutas, gender studies, archaeology, prehistoric archaeology, feminism This chapter describes the development of radical/cultural feminist ideas in the U.S. and the rise of the Goddess movement, focusing on the importance that the movement placed on narratives of prehistory. It positions Gimbutas’ works on Old Europe at the cultural moment of women’s liberation in the U.S., and shows the effect that they had on feminist audiences in the 1970s and the 1980s. The chapter discusses the relationship between the Goddess movement and Gimbutas, demonstrating that by the late 1980s Gimbutas was familiar with radical feminist views. The chapter focuses on the construction of an image of Eastern Europe and other European margins in Gimbutas’ work and the narrative of victimization by the Soviet Union and modernity in general. It shows how the Eastern European Lithuania folk traditions became an attractive source of spirituality for the Goddess movement, as it could be seen as European, and a part of Western cultural heritage, without the guilt of colonialism and imperialism. The chapter instead proposes to consider the history of nationalism and the idealization of the peasant culture in Eastern Europe and to interpret Gimbutas’ Old Europe as a negotiation of European belonging by marginalized Eastern European nations. 2023-11-17T08:43:20Z 2023-11-17T08:43:20Z 2023-09-14T12:44:05Z 2023 chapter https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/76333 9781032104898 9781032104904 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/121824 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/76333/1/9781003215592_10.4324_9781003215592-7.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/76333/1/9781003215592_10.4324_9781003215592-7.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/76333/1/9781003215592_10.4324_9781003215592-7.pdf Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9781003215592-7 10.4324/9781003215592-7 fa69b019-f4ee-4979-8d42-c6b6c476b5f0 Marija Gimbutas University of Washington 1286a4ee-cbd7-4645-97e6-bb22a666b4f4 9781032104898 9781032104904 Routledge 36 open access
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