In 1970, Dashu founded the Suppressed Histories Archives to research and document women's history and to make the full spectrum of women's history and culture visible and accessible.
10 Facts About Max Dashu
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Since the early 1970s, Max Dashu has delivered visual presentations on women's history throughout North America, Europe and Australia.
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In 1976, Max Dashu was involved in the Inez Garcia defense committee.
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Max Dashu's work has cited evidence in support of egalitarian matrilineages, and she authored a critique of Cynthia Eller's The Myth of Matriarchal Prehistory.
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Max Dashu's article "Knocking Down Straw Dolls: A Critique of Cynthia Eller's The Myth of Matriarchal Prehistory" was reprinted in the journal Feminist Theology in 2005.
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Max Dashu has published in the 2011 anthology Goddesses in World Culture, edited by Patricia Monaghan.
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Max Dashu served as a historical consultant for Donna Deitch's 1975 documentary Woman to Woman and for the San Francisco Women's Building mural in 1994.
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Max Dashu provided the illustrations for her book Witches and Pagans and uses her own illustrations to recreate incomplete or damaged artifacts shown in her presentations.
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From 1980 to 1983, Max Dashu co-produced the weekly radio program A World Wind with Chana Wilson on KPFA in Berkeley, California.
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In 1981, Max Dashu produced the women's history program Flashes from Our Past.