Text Box: No stranger to Spokane Authors and Self-Publishers, Christina Crawford will speak to us again. This time she will share some of her insights involving the rewards and frustrations of self-publishing versus small-press publishing based on her recent experiences. She will also discuss her latest book, Daughters of the Inquisition—Medieval Mad-ness: Origins and Aftermath, which deals with the story of Woman and her Spirit in the Western World as it unfolds in an evolving chronicle that reveals her contributions to art, science, poetry, medicine, and religion. For eight thousand years, Woman has filled civilizaText Box: tions with grace and meaning for the people who live with her. In this book her story is told in full, perhaps for the first time. But a struggle of two thousand years haunts those pages. WomanSpirit and her march through time have been excluded from our awareness, primarily because those who wrote in recent centuries were socialized against finding the presence of Woman relevant. In the name of history, the conscious, calculated effort of generation after generation of “religious” men has destroyed, defamed, and disenfranchised all remnants of the glory of womanhood, from Goddess to midwife, from priestess warrior to poet, from sorceress to sovereign. It is a secret many lived but no one wants to acknowledge in its enormity—a secret author Christina Crawford has spent nearly a decade researching in order to reveal. This work is a dedication of passion and tears that the author Text Box: hopes will shape the pre- sent and the future by introducing new insight from the WomanSpirit past—history which has been ignored because it was herstory. Christina Crawford, author of many books, is perhaps best known for Mommie Dearest. Projected publication date is October 2003. Published by Seven Springs Press www.sevenspringspress. com. Category: Woman’s History. ISBN: 0-9663369-1-7, 400 pages, index. $24. Edited by Romana Hillebrand. Text Box: Christina Crawford—September SASP Speaker Text Box:

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THIS ISSUE IS

DEDICATED TO

ELMER FREEMAN

FRIEND, MENTOR,

CO-FOUNDER OF

SASP

 

Dan Poynter

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January 8, 2004

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Christina Crawford

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Chuck O’Conner’s

Eulogy to

Elmer

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