From Housewife to Heretic: One Woman’s Struggle for Equal Rights and Her Excommunication from the Mormon Church Sonia Johnson Wildfire Books 1989 In From Housewife to Heretic Sonia Johnson recounts how she was excommunicated from her church because of her support of the Equal Rights Amendment. I am glad to be a woman and have…
Category: Religion
Woman, Church & State: The Original Exposé of Male Collaboration Against the Female Sex Matilsa Joslyn Gage Persephone Press 1980 (1893) The original 1893 manuscript can be read for free here. Woman, Church & State by Matilda Joslyn Gage was originally published in 1893 and then re-published by the feminist press Persephone nearly a century…
Womanspirit Rising: A Feminist Reader in Religion Judith Plaskow andCarol Christ Harper & Row 1979 This collection of 20th-century feminist writings attempts to re-think the ideas and traditions of male-dominated Western religion. It provides an overview of contemporary feminist thinking on religion and should appeal to anyone interested in the feminist perspective The authors published…
Weaving the Visions: New Patterns in Feminist Spirituality Judith Plaskow andCarol Christ HarperCollins 1989 In this sequel to Womanspirit Rising, Judith Plaskow and Carol Christ have selected key writings in feminist spirituality, focusing on constructive elements in the feminist approach to religion in North America and the great diversity of women’s experience. The writings presented…
The Language of the Goddess:Unearthing the Hidden Symbolsof Western Civilization Marija Gimbutas HarperCollins 1989 The Goddess is the most potent and persistent feature in the archaeological records of the ancient world. She was a symbol of the unity of life in nature, and the personification of all that was sacred and mysterious on Earth. Here,…
Beyond God the Father: Toward aPhilosophy of Women’s Liberation Mary Daly Beacon Press 1973 This book is in a real sense a sequel to The Church and the Second Sex, published in the late sixties, just before the contemporary tide of women’s liberation writings burst forth. The earlier book manifested some of the anger and ebullient…
The Great Cosmic Mother:Rediscovering the Religion of the Earth Monica Sjöö and Barbara Mor Harper One 1987 This classic exploration of the Goddess through time and throughout the world draws on religious, cultural, and archaeological sources to recreate the Goddess religion that is humanity’s heritage. This passionate and important text shows clearly that the religion…
Gyn/Ecology: The Metaethicsof Radical Feminism Mary Daly Beacon Press 1978 Mary Daly’s New Intergalactic Introduction explores her process as a Crafty Pirate on the Journey of Writing Gyn/Ecology and reveals the autobiographical context of this “Thunderbolt of Rage” that she first hurled against the patriarchs in 1979 and no hurls again in the Re-Surging Movement of Radical…