Sally Miller Gearhart

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Sally Miller Gearhart (born April 15, 1931 ) is an American professor , feminist , political activist of the lesbian movement and science fiction author.

Life

Gearhart grew up in the Appalachian Mountains, Virginia . There she was raised by her mother and grandmother after her parents divorced. Gearhart claims to have been aware of her homosexuality at the age of ten . The grandmother owned a theater, which gave the girl a variety of suggestions.

She attended Sweet Briar College and graduated in 1952 with a BA in Drama and English. A year later, she graduated from Bowling Green State University with a master's degree . In 1956 she received her Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign . in theater.

Gearhart began her teaching career at Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, Texas. After two more stations, she got a job at San Francisco State University in 1973 . In this position she was able to confess her homosexuality for the first time.

She now lives in Willits , California .

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Gearhart developed one of the first women's studies programs at an American college.

In 1978 she began to campaign politically as a radical feminist and fought alongside Harvey Milk , the first politician in the USA to openly confess his homosexuality, against California Proposition 6 from November 1978, also known as " Briggs Initiative ". John Briggs had campaigned for homosexuals to be excluded from academic positions.

1979 her best known science fiction novel appeared with The Wanderground . It is about a pure women's society, which lives far from the men's world in a hilly landscape. These women communicate with each other and with nature or nature beings in a predominantly magical way. Your worldview is shaped by a pagan - gynocentric religiosity. Men’s right to exist, which was questioned in the novel, and the essay The Future - if there is one - is Female , published in 1982, led to public discussions due to the demand that the male population be reduced to 10% of the total population. Miller Gearhart's position joined Mary Daly in an interview with EnlightenNext magazine .

Publications

  • Some modern American concepts of tragic drama as revealed by the critical writings of twentieth century American playwrights. (1953)
  • Aristotle and modern theorists on the elements of tragedy. (1969)
  • Loving women / loving men; gay liberation and the church. (1974)
  • The Wanderground (1979)
  • The Future - if there is one - is Female (Essay, 1982)
  • A Feminist Tarot (1981)
  • The Kanshou (2002)
  • The Magister (2003)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Interview with Mary Daly ( Memento of the original from February 7, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.enlightennext.org
personal data
SURNAME Gearhart, Sally Miller
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Anglo-American feminist, professor and author
DATE OF BIRTH April 15, 1931