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WOMANSPIRIT #3 (Wolf Creek, OR: Spring 1975).
4to. Stapled wrps., 64pp. Illustrated. Cover photograph by Carol Newhouse.
The third issue of this feminist quarterly, which was initially published at Golden, a lesbian community in Southern Oregon, and shortly after from Rootworks, a seven-acre tract of land purchased by Ruth and Jean Mountaingrove at Wolf Creek, near Sunny Valley, Oregon. The residents at Rootworks lived in two cabins, and later built a barn ('Natalie Barney') as a production space for WomanSpirit.
In this issue, the editors' opening statement begins: "Our vision of WomanSpirit is of an experiment in using a magazine to share experiences of individual women in ways that are similar to a consciousness-raising group. Consciousness-raising is the feminist way of sharing problem-solving on personal and political levels at the same time", concluding: "We believe that many women, like us, need space to get in touch with their energy, wisdom and strength. WomanSpirit is a magazine to make space for sharing the deepest questions of women now." Includes poetry, drawings, fiction and song, together with notes on healing, sonic meditation, religious heritage and Goddess celebrations.
WomanSpirit was one of the first magazines (possibly the first) to focus on feminism and women's spirituality, and ran for forty issues between 1974 and 1984.
Minor staple rust, o/w Fine. 2000 copies printed.
