Her work that emphasized the female-goddess devotion in some European cultures initially sparked the development of the Goddess Movement. Many other archaeologists followed after her and published their works such as “The Creation of Patriarchy” (Gerda Lerner) which also began attracting more attention to female deity figures across various cultures. Several other historians also argued that cultures in Egypt and Greece also worshipped a universal Great Goddess, supporting their arguments with archaeological material found in many sites. It was around this time that works such as “Mothers and Amazons: The First Feminist History of Culture” and “When God Was a Woman” were reprinted, published and extensively contributed to the development of the movement. Soon this theory or movement gained a lot of attention and it was widely accepted by feminists involved in the field of theology and other archaeologists that a Goddess-centered culture existed in the distant
Her work that emphasized the female-goddess devotion in some European cultures initially sparked the development of the Goddess Movement. Many other archaeologists followed after her and published their works such as “The Creation of Patriarchy” (Gerda Lerner) which also began attracting more attention to female deity figures across various cultures. Several other historians also argued that cultures in Egypt and Greece also worshipped a universal Great Goddess, supporting their arguments with archaeological material found in many sites. It was around this time that works such as “Mothers and Amazons: The First Feminist History of Culture” and “When God Was a Woman” were reprinted, published and extensively contributed to the development of the movement. Soon this theory or movement gained a lot of attention and it was widely accepted by feminists involved in the field of theology and other archaeologists that a Goddess-centered culture existed in the distant