Are There Great Female Beings Out There – Waiting for Us to be Free..." Archived from the original on 14 March 2016. Slöör, Susanna (29 August 2006). "Blessed Be: Monica Sjöö, Konstnärshuset, Stora Galleriet, 24/8 – 17/9 2006". Omkonst (in Swedish) . Retrieved 4 January 2018.

The multiple, parallel forms of oppression Sjöö witnessed or experienced in her lifetime led her to believe that only a total radical feminist revolution would create meaningful change. This would not solely be a revolution of human social relations, but also in our relationship to nature. Her growing environmental consciousness took on renewed energy in the 1980s through her involvement in anti-nuclear protests and the growing women’s peace movement in the UK. During a heightened period of Cold War tensions, the British Government agreed to house ‘first-strike’ nuclear weapons at a US Air force base at Greenham Common in Berkshire in 1980, as well as mobilising a US naval presence at Brawdy in Wales, close to Sjöö’s home. Sjöö responded by setting up a branch of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) in Fishguard, taking part in a march from Cardiff to Greenham Common and making a banner for the emerging women’s group ‘Women For Life on Earth’. Sjöö also travelled to Greenham Common in December 1982, joining the Embrace the Base action in which 30,000 women linked hands around the perimeter fence, singing, chanting, and decorating the grid of chain links. Sjoo, Monica. "The Ancient Religion of the Great Cosmic Mother of All". Monica Sjoo. Archived from the original on 16 June 2016 . Retrieved 9 December 2017.It is not about “men” as a whole, but how a multi thousand year ago experiment in human living, ie societies dominated by male cattle herders, has had it’s assumptions carried through to today. And examining the timeline of the affects of its assumptions. a b Barbara Mor. "Barbara Mor's "The Blue Rental:" Rooms Outside Hollywood, Hell, USA - The Los Angeles Review of Books". Lareviewofbooks.org . Retrieved 2016-01-13. When Mor published The Great Cosmic Mother in 1987, the book met with immediate critical acclaim. It has never been out of print and remains on the curricula of many college and university Women's Studies and Mythology programs. [4] [5] It was considered an important reference books for students who studying ancient history and religion by the School Library Journal. [4] Sjöö, Monica (1973). "För en revolutionär feministisk konst". Vi Människor (in Swedish). 25 (4): 22–26.

The Great Cosmic Mother” is the first retrospective museum exhibition of Monica Sjöö’s oeuvre. Featuring some fifty works from Sjöö’s entire practice, it spans from monumental paintings, over political posters and banners, to drawings and material from the artist’s large archives.

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Mature development—does not come from severing the early infantile sense of unity with the Mother, but from reestablishing it. The holistic point of ancient women’s religion was that the Mother is not one’s personal maternal parent solely, but the entire community of women, the entire living earth, and beyond this the entire surrounding and ongoing cosmic process. One could not be alienated because one is always within this process, as it is always within the self. Unless, of course, such knowledge is suppressed from the outside, by patriarchal conditioning.