The Goddess Within: A Guide to the Eternal Myths that Shape Women's Lives
10 best books like The Goddess Within: A Guide to the Eternal Myths that Shape Women's Lives (Jennifer Barker Woolger): Beyond God the Father: Toward a Philosophy of Women's Liberation, Womanspirit Rising: A Feminist Reader in Religion, The Sacred Prostitute: Eternal Aspect of the Feminine, She: Understanding Feminine Psychology, The Myth of the Goddess: Evolution of an Image, The Woman's Dictionary of Symbols and Sacred Objects, Spinning Straw into Gold: What Fairy Tales Reveal About the Transformations in a Woman's Life, Ancient Mirrors of Womanhood: A Treasury of Goddess and Heroine Lore from Around the World, The Holy Book of Women's Mysteries: Feminist Witchcraft, Goddess Rituals, Spellcasting and Other Womanly Arts, Descent to the Goddess: A Way of Initiation for Women
| Author | Mary Daly |
| ISBN | 0807015032 |
Daly was popular at seminary, but I didn't get around to reading her until years later. I was visiting an old high school friend in Springfield, Vermont, had finished the book I'd brought along for the trip and asked his wife for recommendations from their substantial library. She suggested Daly.
If...
| Author | Carol P. Christ |
| ISBN | 0060613777 |
This text had been low on my Feminist Theology To-Reads simply because it was so often quoted since that I thought it might be redundant to read. But I kept feeling nudged to sit down with it on its own terms instead of others' summaries. My reading of it is strangely bittersweet.
As one of the foundational...
| Author | Nancy Qualls-Corbett |
| ISBN | 0919123317 |
The ancient connection between spirituality and passionate love has in modern times become lost to the depths of the unconscious, leaving a broad sense of dissatisfaction and boredom in relationships. When the Goddess of Love was still honored, the sacred prostitute was virgin in the original sense...
She: Understanding Feminine Psychology
| Author | Robert A. Johnson |
| ISBN | 0060963972 |
What does it mean to be a woman? What is the pathway to mature femininity? And what of the masculine components of a woman's personality? Robert A. Johnson explores these questions in this new edition of She, updated to reflect the growth of his thinking on these subjects.
Many writers and scholars...
| Author | Anne Baring |
| ISBN | 0140192921 |
A comprehensive, scholarly accessible study, in which the authors draw upon poetry and mythology, art and literature, archaeology and psychology to show how the myth of the goddess has been lost from our formal Judeo-Christian images of the divine. They explain what happened to the goddess, when,...
| Author | Barbara G. Walker |
| ISBN | 0062509233 |
This fascinating guide to the history and mythology of woman-related symbols features:
Unique organization by shape of symbol or type of sacred object
21 different sections including Round and Oval Motifs, Sacred Objects, Secular-Sacred Objects, Rituals, Deities'...
| Author | Joan Gould |
| ISBN | 0812975456 |
What’s your favorite fairy tale? Whether it’s “Cinderella,” “Beauty and the Beast,” “Hansel and Gretel,” or another story, your answer reveals something significant about you, your experiences, and your soul. In this penetrating book, Joan Gould brings to the surface the hidden...
| Author | Merlin Stone |
| ISBN | 0807067512 |
I really like this book, but that might surprise people who know me well. That's because I studied Classics and ancient Greek goddesses, and this book does not provide a balanced academic portrayal of the deities. Which is not to say its not well researched, but neither is that the book's point, I suspect....
| Author | Zsuzsanna E. Budapest |
| ISBN | 0914728679 |
I've been waiting to read this book for ages, and now that I finally have started to read it I'm so disappointed and angry! This is so much crap!
Where are all the women's mysteries and magic? It all comes down to "we have to stop this chauvinistic, male-centered, women-oppressing world-spread society!"...
| Author | Sylvia Brinton Perera |
| ISBN | 0919123058 |
This is one of the most important books written about the meaning of the Feminine and the importance of making the inner journey of descent in order to mature in individuate as a human being. Perera utilizes the myth of Innana/Ishtar's descent to visit her dark sister, Ereshkigal, to situate her discussion...
| Author | Sara Avant Stover |
| ISBN | 1608682897 |
Follow Your Heroine’s Journey to Reclaim Feminine Power and Wisdom
Women face many challenging transitions on the pilgrimage from girlhood through womanhood: menses, love and heartbreak, motherhood, menopause. Devoid of a central narrative, these rites of passage too often happen...
| Author | Marie-Louise von Franz |
In this engaging commentary, the distinguished analyst and author Marie-Louise von Franz shows how the Feminine reveals itself in fairy tales of German, Russian, Scandinavian, and Eskimo origin, including familiar stories such as "Sleeping Beauty," "Snow White and Rose Red," and "Rumpelstiltskin."...
Goddess Companion: Daily Meditations on the Feminine Spirit
| Author | Patricia Monaghan |
| ISBN | 1567184634 |
Now you can turn every day into a day dedicated to the goddess and your own personal spiritual evolution, when you get The Goddess Companion by Patricia Monaghan.
Turn to The Goddess Companion each day for a clearer insight into how the divine flows through your life. This spirit-nourishing...
| Author | Jean Shinoda Bolen |
| ISBN | 0060972807 |
In this challenging and enlightening companion volume to the bestselling Goddesses in Everywoman, Jean Shinoda Bolen turns her attention to the powerful inner patterns, or archetypes, that shape men's personalities, careers, and personal relationships. Viewing these archetypes as the inner...
Weaving the Visions: New Patterns in Feminist Spirituality
| Author | Judith Plaskow |
| ISBN | 0060613831 |
This book made my mind explode when I read it in the early 1990s. This book connected me to a history of women in religious life and to a more fuller and complex understanding of God's nature that I had ever previously thought possible. Would it hit someone with the same impact today? It depends upon your...
The Heroine's Journey: Woman's Quest for Wholeness
| Author | Maureen Murdock |
| ISBN | 0877734852 |
This book is DATED. Which is interesting because it was published 18 years ago. It's kind of wild that a book like this can seem so old because it indicates to me that quite a lot has happened in the last 18 years. This book came out when I was beginning my most radical feminist years and if I'd read it then, I'd...
Love and Awakening: Discovering the Sacred Path of Intimate Relationship
| Author | John Welwood |
| ISBN | 0060927976 |
Unlike other guides that focus on how to make relationships work, this groundbreaking book teaches couples how their relationships can make their lives work. Combining the practical advice of Harville Hendrix with the spiritual guidance of Thomas Moore, it shows couples how their relationships...
The Obsession: Reflections on the Tyranny of Slenderness
| Author | Kim Chernin |
| ISBN | 0060925051 |
The Obsession is a deeply committed and beautifully written analysis of our society's increasing demand that women be thin. It offers a careful, thought provoking discussion of the reasons men have encouraged this obsession and women have embraced it. It is a book about women's efforts to become thin...
Kissing the Hag: The Dark Goddess and the Unacceptable Nature of Women
| Author | Emma Restall Orr |
| ISBN | 1846941571 |
Kissing the Hag is a wonderfully intelligent, earthy, cosmic diary of the feminine life... this life-soaked book remains close to the fluids of body and soul... It's an obvious gift-book for women going through a life passage, but it could also be important for men, who are closer to the mysteries presented...
365 Goddess: A Daily Guide to the Magic and Inspiration of the Goddess
| Author | Patricia J. Telesco |
| ISBN | 0062515683 |
Telesco really messed up in a couple of places in this book, and if she did so here, I hate to imagine where else she messed up. OK first of all - she writes, at the end of July, about a Goddess called "Voluspa." There is no such Goddess. The Voluspa is a poem, not a Goddess. It is found in a book called "The Poetic...
The Wounded Woman: Healing the Father-Daughter Relationship
| Author | Linda Schierse Leonard |
| ISBN | 0394721837 |
Everyone with a soul (it's a symbolic choice, you decided whether or not you would like to grow the Soul illusion or not. I do) needs to read this. Everyone with a Mom needs to read this book. Everyone with a Dad needs to read this book. Everyone needs to read this book.
The key to ending misogyny in...
She Captains: Heroines and Hellions of the Sea
| Author | Joan Druett |
| ISBN | 0684856913 |
Long before women had the right to vote, earn money, or have lives of their own, "she captains" -- bold women distinguished for courageous enterprise on the high seas -- thrilled and terrorized their shipmates, performed acts of valor, and pirated with the best of their male counterparts. From the warrior...
Deadly Persuasion: Why Women and Girls Must Fight the Addictive Power of Advertising
| Author | Jean Kilbourne |
| ISBN | 0684865998 |
There is no greater expert on the subject of how aggressive marketing can degrade the quality of a culture than Jean Kilbourne. As a writer, filmmaker, and internationally recognized expert on advertising, addiction, and women’s issues, it has been estimated that she has given lectures at roughly...
