Book Reading List
Women Studies
(Compiled by Cosmeta)
Sexism and inequality of women is a major problem to be defeated not only here in America but around the globe. The best way to correct a wrong done is to empower women of all ages with the truth about our rich heritage. Granted, men have held sway for many a century, yet behind every successful man, there you will find a woman either by design or by intellect, motivating him and giving him emotional support. Yet when women need support, all too often they fail to recognize the power within. This section is devoted to that great and noble cause. Namely, to empower women. What better way to promote the future of womanhood then to uncover the archtypal and feminine figures of our religions and historical past.
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*A* Ancient Mirrors Of Womanhood A Treasury of Goddess and Heroine Lore from Around the World Illustrated by Cynthia Stone by Merline Stone Author of When God Was a Woman Beacon Press - Boston All the Women of the Bible The Life and Times of All the, by Herbert Lockyer ZondervanPublishingHouse Grand Rapids, Michigan A Division of HarperCollinsPublishers Alone Of All Her Sex The Myth And The Cult Of The Virgin Mary by Marina Warner "A Rare Jewel In The Realm Of Historical Research." - Philadelphia Inquirer Vintage Books A Division of Random House - New York All The Women Of The Bible by Edith Deen HarperSanFrancisco A Division of HarperCollinsPublishers *B* But SHE Said Feminist Practices of Biblical Interpretaton by Eliszbeth Schussler Fiorenza Beacon Press - Boston The Book Of Lilith by Barbara Black Koltuv, Ph.D. Nicolas-Hays, Inc. York Beach, Maine Buffalo Woman Comes Singing The Spirit Song of Rainbow Medicine Woman by Brooke Medicine Eagle Ballantine Books - New York Born Of A Woman A Bishop Rethinks The Virgin Birth and the Treatment of Women by a Male-Dominated Church by John Shelby Spong Author of Rescuing the Bible From Fundamentalism HarperSanFrancisco A Division of HarperCollinsPublishers *C* The CRONE Woman Of Age, And Power by Barbara G. Walker Author of The Woman's Encylopedia of Myths and Secrets Harper & Row, Publishers 1985 *D* The Divine Feminine The Biblical Imagery of God as Female by Virgina Ramey Mollenkott Crossroad - New York Dreamwalker The Path of Sacred Power by Mary Summer Rain Author of Spirit Song and Phoenix Rising Whitford Press A division of Schiffer Publishing, Ltd. *E* Every Woman In The Bible Fully Illustrated by Sue and Larry Richards Discover all the women in the Bible and how powerfully their lives speak to us today. Thomas Nelson Publishers Nashville The Evidence For Visions Of The Virgin Mary by Kevin McClure The Aqarian Press *F* *G* The Great Cosmic Mother Rediscovering The Religion Of The Earth by Monica Sjoo & Barbara Mor HarperSanFrancisco A Division of HarperCollinsPublishers The Great Mother by Erich Neuman Translated by Ralp Manheim Bollingen Series / Princeton Bollingen Series XLVII Princeton University Pres 1955 Goddess, Whores, Wives And Slaves Women in Classical Antiquity by Sarah B. Pomeroy Schocken Books - New York 1975 *H* *I* *J* Joan Of Arc by Regine Pernoud Dorset Press - New York Joan Of Arc The Image of Feminine Heroism by Marina Warner Vintage Books A Division of Random House New York Joan of Arc, Saint by V. Sackville-West G.K.Hall& Co. Boston, Massachusetts 1984 *K* *L* Lilith, The Book Of by Barbara Black Koltuv, Ph.D. Nicolas-Hays, Inc. York Beach, Maine *M* Mother Of The Buddhas Meditation on the Prahnaparamita Sutra by Lex Hixion Foreword by Robert A.E. Thurman, Ph.D Quest Books The Theosophical Publishing House Mary Magdalen Myth and Metaphor by Susan Haskins Harcourt Brace & Company The Magdalen Gospel What If Women Had Written The Gospels? by Mary Ellen Ashcroft Doubleday Mother Teresa A Simple Path Compiled by Lucinda Vardey Ballantine Books - New York Mary's Message to the World by Annie Kirkwood "This Book has great impact" -- Marianne Williamson G.P. Putnam's Sons New York Mary, Mother of the Church by Fr. Francis J. Ripley Tan Books and Publishers, Inc. Rockford Illinois Booklet Mary The Second Eve by John Henry Newman Compiled by Sister Eileen Breen, F.M.A. Tan Books and Publishers, Inc. Rockford Illinois Booklet *N* *O* The Once & Future Goddess A Sweeping Visual Chronicle of the Sacred Female and Her Reemergence in the Culture Mythology of Our Time by Elinor W. Gadon HarperSanFrancisco A Division of HarperCollinsPublishers *P* *Q* *R* *S* SOPHIA - The Wisdom of God An Outline of Sophiology by Sergei Bulfakov Lindisfarne Press Sophia: Goddess of Wisdom The Divine Feminine From Black Goddess To World-Soul by Caitlin Matthews Aquarian/Thorsons An Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Sexism and God-Talk Toward a Feminist Theology by Rosemary Radford Ruether With A New Introduction Beacon Press - Boston Saint Joan of Arc by V. Sackville-West G.K.Hall& Co. Boston, Massachusetts 1984 The Sea Priestess by Dion Fortune Samuel Weiser, Inc. *T* *U* *V* *W* The Woman's Encylopedia Of Myths And Secrets by Barbara Walker Harper & Row Publishers The Woman's Dictionary of Symbols & Sacred Objects Illustrated by the Author by Barbara Walker HarperSanFrancisco A Division of HarperCollinsPublishers The White Goddess Amended and Enlarged Edition by Robert Graves Farrar, Straus and Giroux New York When GOD Was A WOMAN she Story of the most ancient religions, the religion of the Goddess, and the role this ancient worship played in Judeo-Christian attitudes toward women. by Merline Stone A Harvest/HB Book Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers San Diego - New York - London The Woman With The Alabastar Jar Mary Magdalen and the Holy Grail by Margaret Starbird Bear & Company Publishing Santa Fe, New Mexico The Woman's Bible Commentary by Carol A. Newson and Sharon H. Ringe Editors SPCK, London Westminster/John Knox Press Louisville, Kentucky Woman and Nature The Roaring Inside Her by Susan Griffin Harper Colophon Books Harper & Row Publishers A Woman's Place by Ann Helming Coward-McCann, Inc., New York Woman Guides Readings Toward a Feminist Theology by Rosemary Radford Ruether "Rosemary Ruether challenges, irritates, stimulates and inspires her readers to rethink ...their own relationship to religious perception and experience." -- Elaine Pagels, New York Times Book Review. Beacon Press - New York Woman, The Mother Of All Living A Lecture by Manly P. Hall The Philosophical Society, Inc. 1955 *X* *Y* *Z*