{"id":896,"date":"2020-07-20T14:32:05","date_gmt":"2020-07-20T14:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imaginedtheatres.com\/?post_type=person&#038;p=896"},"modified":"2020-07-13T14:48:43","modified_gmt":"2020-07-13T14:48:43","slug":"gloria-orenstein","status":"publish","type":"person","link":"https:\/\/www.imaginedtheatres.com\/gloria-orenstein\/","title":{"rendered":"Gloria Orenstein"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><strong>Gloria F. Orenstein<\/strong>\u00a0is Professor Emerita in Comparative Literature and Gender Studies from the University of Southern California. Her areas of research began with a love of theatre, and her book <em>The Theater of the Marvelous: Surrealism and the Contemporary Stage<\/em> led to her meeting with Surrealist artist Leonora Carrington in the early seventies. Her second book, <em>The Reflowering of the Goddess<\/em>, studied the way women writers and artists of the seventies, eighties, and nineties explored the ancient ethos and mythos of pre-patriarchal civilization, when the centrality of the Great Mother Goddess was revered along with nature. These discoveries\u00a0led to Orenstein&#8217;s co-creation of a pioneering conference at USC on Eco-feminism in 1987 and she co-edited the book that\u00a0emerged from the conference,\u00a0<em>Reweaving the World: The Emergence of Eco-Feminism.<\/em>\u00a0In 2018 she received The Lifetime Achievement Award from the Women&#8217;s Caucus of Art of The College Art Association. A film on her life&#8217;s work, titled\u00a0 <em>Gloria&#8217;s Call<\/em>, was\u00a0made by four amazing women artists from the Woman&#8217;s Building of L.A\u00a0 and has received awards at several film festivals and awaits distribution. Orenstein plans to follow the wisdom of the young people in Meiling Cheng&#8217;s piece &#8220;Pneuma&#8221; and work towards the regeneration of life on our planet to create a more sustainable, harmonious, conscious, and caring way of life for all the inhabitants both human and non-human on the Earth.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gloria F. Orenstein\u00a0is Professor Emerita in Comparative Literature and Gender Studies from the University of Southern California. Her areas of research began with a love of theatre, and her book The Theater of the Marvelous: Surrealism and the Contemporary Stage led to her meeting with Surrealist artist Leonora Carrington in the early seventies. Her second [&hellip;]","protected":false},"featured_media":897,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginedtheatres.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/person\/896"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginedtheatres.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/person"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginedtheatres.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/person"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginedtheatres.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginedtheatres.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}