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Topics

 * “The HERETICS”: inside story of the Heresies: feminist art collective


 * Women in journalism and media professions


 * Second-Wave Feminism in the 1970’s


 * Feminist art movement in the United States

History
The Heresies was a feminist journal that was produced from 1970 – 1992 by the Heresies Collective based in New York. Several issues of the journal capture different Feminist subject matter including feminist theory, art, politics, patterns of communication, lesbian art and artists, women’s traditional arts and politics of aesthetics, women and violence, working women together, third world women, women and music, sex, film, activism, racism, and coming of age. The journal was seen as not only a major contribution to the feminist art scene, but a major forum for feminist thinking that experimented with an editorial format that asked contributors to grapple with hierarchical and societal issues of difference. The Heresies: A Feminist Publication on Art and Politics created a public discourse in feminist thought and expression. Initial members of the Heresies Collective included Joan Braderman, Mary Beth Edelson, Harmony Hammond, Elizabeth Hess, Arlene Ladden, Lucy R. Lippard, Miriam Schapiro and May Stevens.

Joan Braderman
Joan Braderman, professor of film and media at Hampshire College, was a major fixture in the collective, mainly because of her contribution of the film based on the Heresies: “The Heretics”. The film chronicles the twenty-year span of the Heresies. The film includes intimate interviews with major feminist artists who got their start at the Heresies Collective as Joan did in 1971. The film challenges he traditional documentary format but utilizing “striking new digital motion graphics” as the online website points out. The film situates the collective’s activities under the broader social context of Second-wave feminism.