Self Portrait of Artemisia Gentileschi as a Martyr
Early Women Masters East & West
Early Women Masters: Art, Music & Spirituality
Emily Dickinson's Nature Mysticism : A Photo Poetic Labyrinth
Explore a clickable 4-circuit meander-labyrinth, with 32 mystic poems by Emily Dickinson, combining nature spirituality and travel imagery. Includes related commentary adapted from ED's own writings, also What is a Garden? and Afterthoughts! (Slideshows), a guide to Dickinson's Herbarium and St. Teresa's Interior Castle.
FREE MIDI MUSIC
Women Composers' Early Music & Ragtime MIDI
  ANCIENT CHINESE TAOISM  
THE FEMININE TAO
(Gender-Inclusive Translations of the Tao Te Ching)
Hyperlinked Bibliography: Women Authors on the Tao Te Ching
Picturing Tao (Enigmatic & Nature Photography)
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Crookback: Women Masters in the Chuang-tzu
Magical Calligraphy of Tokai Okon
Mary Cassatt & Spiritual Alchemy
Immortal Sister Sun Bu-er
(Taoist Poetry & Historical Legend)
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ART & MYTHOLOGY
Homeric Hymn to Demeter  |  Bibliography
A female author for the Hymn?
Ancient Greek, Transliteration and Translation: Citations from
Feminist & Other Commentary, Art & Photo Illustrations

(001-014)
The Narcissus
(015-032)
Abduction
(033-050)
Novena
(051-061)
Hecate
(062-089)
Helios

(090-104)
Descent
(105-117)
The Well
(118-144)
Doso's Story
(145-170)
Demeter Hired
(171-189)
Threshold

(190-205)
Iambe's Jest
(206-211)
The Kykeon
(212-232)
Demophoön
(233-254)
God-Making
(255-279)
Transfigured

(280-295)
Epiphany
(296-309)
Temple Grief
(310-333)
Messengers
(334-358)
Hermes
(359-383)
Return

(384-413)
Pomegranate
(414-440)
Reunion
(441-469)
Rheia's Visit
(470-482)
The Rites
(483-495)
Triumph


Medieval & Renaissance Music CDs
Women composers, music by Kassia (Gregorian), Hildegard of Bingen, Trobairitz (Medieval Women Troubadours), Chansons de Femme, performed by Sinfonye, Anonymous 4, Sequentia, Circle Dances, Christine de Pisan, Anne Boleyn, Elizabeth I, the Black Madonna, Bridget of Ireland

Emily Dickinson Feminist Essays
Brilliant, early feminist essays on Emily Dickinson's life, letters & poetry (pub. 1886-1915) by: (1) Emily Fowler Ford, (2) Ella Gilbert Ives, (3) Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant, (4) Thomas Wentworth Higginson, (5) Susan Huntington Dickinson, (6) Lilian Whiting, (7) Martha Dickinson Bianchi

Rengetsu Pottery
Japanese Jomon Dogu Figurine
 

ZEN, SHINTO & ASIAN ARTS
IDIOPHONICS 
NATURAL SOUNDS
(with sound effects) in
Early Japanese Women's Poetry
with BIBLIOGRAPHY
 Nukata: Songs of the Shamaness,
Classical Waka Poetry by LADY ISE
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ABLUTIONS with
« Otagaki Rengetsu (1791-1875)
her hand-shaped pottery incised
with poetry illustrated left,
elsewhere she says:

From dawn to dusk
spending the day
gathering clay
surely Buddha would not
think this a trifling matter.
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« JOMON POTTERY
Women's prehistoric pottery
and Dogu figures, Japan:
citations, illustrations & links
Japanese Tea Ceremony
(Zen-Taoist Aspects),
Princess Shikishi's Wild Imaginings (waka),
Art & Spirituality of Japanese Gardens
HAIKU POETRY of Chiyo-ni
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WOMEN ZEN MASTERS
(Raihai Tokuzui),
along with an extensive survey of the SHOBOGENZO, Dogen Zenji's
(Gender-Inclusive) Studies of the Way,
and line art illustrations for
Dogen's ECOSPIRITUALITY,
also studies on compassion:
KUAN YIN and TARA
also MT. FUJI's
Shinto Goddesses
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ANTIQUE, ANCIENT AND MODERN

ANCIENT & MODERN MAYA LIN
Illustrated links to fascinating websites exploring
the art and architecture of the great,
contemporary architect Maya Lin
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AMERICAN QUILTS: HISTORY & DESIGN
ANTIQUE GEOMETRIC
Historical QUILT DESIGNS & Free Patchwork Blocks
with recommended Quilt Design BOOKS

   TANGRAMS 
TANGRAM QUILT DESIGNS (Copyright-Free)
(derived from solutions to ancient
Chinese tangram puzzles)
 Harriet Powers: African-American Story-Bible Quilts
 Rags to Riches: quilt fabric online sources
with ragtime MIDI music by women composers


Illustration (TOP): Self Portrait of Artemisia Gentileschi (1615)
(BELOW): Frida Kahlo & "Bonito" (detail, 1941)

See more Frida Kahlo Self Portraits »
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