Tatiana Mamonova

Tatiana Mamonova (born 10 December 1943),cite book | title=Encyclopedia of Russian women's movements| url=http://books.google.com/books?id=Qk-ICsx5L90C| last=Noonan| first=Norma C.| authorlink=| coauthors=Carol Nechemias| date=2001| pages=155-156| publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group| location=Westport, Connecticut|ISBN 0313304386] also known as Tatyana Mamonova, is a founder of the modern Russian women's movement, an internationally renowned democratic women's leader, author, poet, journalist, videographer, artist, editor and public lecturer.

Early life

Mamonova was born in the Yaroslavl region of the Soviet Union in 1943, and was raised in Leningrad after World War II.

Career

Mamonova was the first feminist dissident exiled from the Soviet Union in 1980 for re-igniting the Russian women's movement; initiating her organization, then called Woman and Russia, the first NGO promoting the human rights of women from the Soviet Union and connecting Russian speaking women’s voices and needs with the international community; and editing and publishing the samizdat "Woman and Russia Almanac", now called "Woman and Earth Almanac", an art and literary journal containing the first collection of Soviet feminist writings, which has now been published in 11 languages and in over 22 countries.

Prior to her exile from her native St. Petersburg, Russia, she was the first woman organizer and exhibitor in the non-conformist artist movement in Russia and a literary and television journalist with Aurora Publishers (working alongside Josef Brodsky) and Leningrad Television.

During her "Ms. Magazine" tour, Mamonova was invited by the Ford Foundation in New York for a meeting and round-table discussion by leading executives from the foundation shortly after her exile and she received the highest praises from Ford Foundation’s executives for her intelligence, leadership and courage.

Since her exile, in addition to continuing to edit and publish her Almanac nka "Woman and Earth Almanac" and two additional Woman and Earth publications: "Succes d’estime" (since 2001) and "Fotoalbum: Around the World" (since 2004), and to lead and expand her organization, now also called Woman and Earth Global Eco-Network, she has authored four books in the United States, as well as hundreds of articles and travelogues for journals, magazines and newspapers, including "The New York Times", lectured in hundreds of universities and for public organizations in the United States and throughout the world including participating in a national lecture tour with "Ms. Magazine", and tours of Africa, Australia, Japan, the United States, India, South America, Dominican Republic, Scandinavia, France, Germany, Holland, Italy and Greece with support from Amnesty International, Alliance Français, Parliaments and labour and non-governmental organizations. She also exhibited in more than 20 countries and sold her award-winning art, many times donating proceeds to benefit the activities of her NGO and human rights campaigns throughout the world. She is also Executive Producer of a weekly educational television series in Manhattan.

She is a former post-doctoral fellow with Harvard University's Bunting Institute, a member of Pen International, the Russia representative to the Sisterhood is Global Institute, and has been the subject of documentary films, books, and all forms of media coverage from every leading medium including "CBS Evening News with Morton Dean", "The International Herald Tribune", "The New York Times" and the BBC.

Awards and honors

*Woman of the Year 1980 by "Femme Magazine", Paris
*Post Doctoral Fellow Officer, Bunting Institute, Harvard University 1984-1985
*Diamond Homer Poetry Award 1988, Poetry Society of Hollywood California
*100 Heroines Award 1998 by the Women’s Committee of Seneca Falls, NY
*Human Rights Award, African Peace Network, Ghana 1999
*Inclusion in Womenkind Project, Canada 2000
*Inclusion in the Prominent Refugees Directory UNHCR 2001
*Community Media Award by MNN, NYC 2001
*Living Legacy Award 2002 by the Women’s International Centre of San Diego, California
*Inclusion in Prize-winning Portrait of Prominent Refugees by Brazilian Artist at Kenya Exhibition 2005

Her human rights case, which remains unresolved, was selected to be heard amongst the 10 finalists at the 17th International Human Rights Competition in Caen, France in January 2006, and in December, 2006, she received the prestigious Heart of Danko Award 2006 for her artistic and cultural prowess by a St. Petersburg and Moscow based organization.

Works

*"Femmes et Russie Almanach", (in French) Volumes 1-3, edited by Tatiana Mamonova. Paris: Edition Des Femmes, 1980-1981.
*"Zhentschina i Rossia Almanach", (in Russian) Volume 3, edited by Tatiana Mamonova. Paris: Edition Des Femmes, 1980.
*"Voix de Femmes en Russia Almanach", (in French) Volume 4, edited by Tatiana Mamonova. Paris: Denoel-Gontier, 1982.
*"Woman and Russia Almanach", Volume 1, edited by Tatiana Mamonova. London: Sheba Press, 1980.
*"Kvinnen og Russland Almanach", Volume 1, edited by Tatyana Mamonova. Oslo: Pax Forlag, 1980.
*"Kvinnan Ryssland Almanac", Volumes 1 & 2, edited by Tatyana Mamonova. Stockholm: Awe Gebers, 1980.
*"Kvindren og Rusland Almanach", Volumes 1 & 2, edited by Tatyana Mamonova. Copenhagen: Informations Forlag, 1980.
*"Die Frau und Russland Almanach", Volumes 1 & 2, edited by Tatyana Mamonova. Munich: Frauenoffensive, 1980.
*"Die Frau und Russland Almanach", (in German) Volume 3, edited by Tatyana Mamonova. Basel, Switzerland: Mond, 1982.
*"Das Radieschen" (children’s book), by Tatyana Mamonova. Vienna: Blagina Verlag, 1981.
*"Vrouwen in Sovjet-Rusland Anthology" from Volumes 1-3, edited by Tatyana Mamonova. Amsterdam: Anthos, 1981.
*"Woman and Russia Anthology" from Volumes 1-3, (in Japanese), edited by Tatyana Mamonova. Tokyo: Shin-Ichi Masagaki & Miiko Kataoka, 1982.
*"Feminism in Russia Almanach", (in Greek), edited by Tatyana Mamonova. Athens: Images, 1982.
*"Woman and Russia Almanac (1979-1991)", now called "Woman and Earth Almanac" (1991-present), edited by Tatyana Mamonova, New York: Woman and Earth Press.
*"Women and Russia, Feminist Writings from the Soviet Union", edited by Tatyana Mamonova, Boston: Beacon Press, 1984.
*"Russian Women's Studies: Essays on Sexism in Soviet Culture", by Tatyana Mamonova New York: Pergamon Press and Teacher’s College Press, 1989, 1990, 1991.
*"Women's Glasnost vs Naglost: Stopping Russian Backlash", by Tatyana Mamonova. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press 1993.
*"Succes d’estime", by Tatyana Mamonova. New York: Woman and Earth Press, 2001 - present.
*"Fotoalbum: Around the World", by Tatyana Mamonova. New York: Woman and Earth Press, 2004 - present.

Notes and references

*Aiken, Susan Hardy and Barker, Adele (1993). "Dialogues/Dialogi". Duke University Press. ISBN 0-8223-1390-1
*Rule, Wilma and Noonan, Norma (1996). "Russian Women in Politics and Society". Greenwood Press. ISBN 0-313-29363-5

External links

* [http://www.womanandearth.com Woman and Earth] official site