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Starhawk (born Miriam Simos on June 17, 1951) is an American writer and activist.〔Starhawk (2002). ''Webs of Power: Notes from the Global Uprising''. New Society Publishers.〕 She is known as a theorist of feminist Neopaganism and ecofeminism. She is a columnist for Beliefnet.com and for ''On Faith'', the ''Newsweek''/''Washington Post'' online forum on religion. Starhawk's book ''The Spiral Dance'' (1979) was one of the main inspirations behind the Goddess movement. In 2012, she was listed in Watkins' ''Mind Body Spirit'' magazine as one of the 100 Most Spiritually Influential Living People.〔http://www.watkinsbooks.com/review/watkins-spiritual-100-list-2012〕 ==Early life== Starhawk was born in 1951 in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Her father Jack Simos, died when she was five. Her mother, Bertha Claire Goldfarb Simos, was a professor of Social work at UCLA. Both her parents were the children of Jewish immigrants from Russia. In high school she and fellow feminist Christina Hoff Sommers were best friends. Starhawk received a BA in Fine Arts from UCLA. In 1973, while she was a graduate student in film at UCLA, she won the Samuel Goldwyn Writing Award for her novel, ''A Weight of Gold'', a story about Venice, California, where she then lived. She received an MA in Psychology, with a concentration in feminist therapy, from Antioch University West in 1982. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Starhawk」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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