"Despite all the hostility directed against Modern Matriarchal Studies, it is not possible to disregard its findings. It presents us with a well balanced, egalitarian and basically peaceful society which can exist without life destroying inventions like wars of conquest and the rule of dominance. This is why I am convinced that matriarchy is needed in the struggle for a humane world."
Dr. Heide Goettner-Abendroth
Weghof 2, 94577 Winzer / Germany
Research in matriarchal societies and cultures
Website: www.goettner-abendroth.de
Director of:
INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY HAGIA
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Heide Goettner-Abendroth is a philosopher and researcher on culture and society, focused on matriarchal studies. She was born in Thuringia (Germany) in 1941 and is the mother of three children, two daughters and one son. In 1973 she took her Ph.D. in philosophy at the University of Munich on the subject of „Logic of Interpretation” and taught philosophy for ten years (from 1973-1983). She has published philosophical articles and books on the philosophy of science.
Since 1976 she has been doing pioneering work in Women´s Studies in West Germany along with her female colleagues. She has published various books on matriarchal society and culture, and has become the founding mother of Modern Matriarchal Studies.
In 1986 she founded the „HAGIA. International Academy for Matriarchal Studies and Matriarchal Spirituality” in Germany, and since the beginning she has been its director.
In 1980 she was visiting professor at the University of Montreal, Canada, and in 1992, at the University of Innsbruck, Austria. In 1993 she received a scholarship from the University of Bremen, Germany for her research. Since 1998 she is member of the Institute of Archaeomythology in California (USA).
In 2003, she organized and guided the First World Congress on Matriarchal Studies: "Societies in Balance" in Luxembourg, Europe (sponsorship: Marie Josée Jacobs, Minister for Women's Affairs of Luxembourg), and in 2005, she guided the Second World Congress on Matriarchal Studies: "Societies of Peace" in Texas, USA (sponsorship: Genevieve Vaughan).
In 2005, she was elected by the "Initiative 1000 PeaceWomen" as one of these women from all over the world.