The Power Of The Crone
10 best books like The Power Of The Crone (Clarissa Pinkola Estés): The Bold World: A Memoir of Family and Transformation, D-Day Girls: The Spies Who Armed the Resistance, Sabotaged the Nazis, and Helped Win World War II, When I Walk Through That Door, I Am: An Immigrant Mother's Quest, Women Warriors: An Unexpected History, Grassroots: A Field Guide for Feminist Activism, Alone of All Her Sex: The Myth and the Cult of the Virgin Mary, Indie Spiritualist: A No Bullshit Exploration of Spirituality, Woman Who Glows in the Dark: A Curandera Reveals Traditional Aztec Secrets of Physical and Spiritual Health, We Will Not Be Silenced: The Lived Experience of Sexual Harassment and Sexual Assault Told Powerfully Through Poetry, Prose, Essay, and Art, Coming Home: How Midwives Changed Birth
| Author | Jodie Patterson |
| ISBN | 0399179011 |
Inspired by her transgender son, activist Jodie Patterson explores identity, gender, race, and authenticity to tell the real-life story of a family's history and transformation.
ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE WEEK--USA TODAY AND NEW YORK POST - "A courageous and poetic testimony on family...
The dramatic, untold true story of the extraordinary women recruited by Britain's elite spy agency to sabotage the Nazis and pave the way for Allied victory in World War II.
In 1942, the Allies were losing, Germany seemed unstoppable, and every able man in England was fighting. Churchill believed...
| Author | Jimmy Santiago Baca |
| ISBN | 0807059358 |
Poet-activist Jimmy Baca immerses the reader in an epic narrative poem, imagining the experience of motherhood in the context of immigration, family separation, and ICE raids on the Southern border.
Jimmy Santiago Baca makes the immigration crisis painfully personal in this new interpretation...
| Author | Pamela D. Toler |
| ISBN | 0807064327 |
Who says women don't go to war? From Vikings and African queens to cross-dressing military doctors and WWII Russian fighter pilots, these are the stories of women for whom battle was not a metaphor.
The woman warrior is always cast as an anomaly--Joan of Arc, not G.I. Jane. But women, it turns...
| Author | Jennifer Baumgardner |
| ISBN | 0374528659 |
From the authors of Manifesta, an activism handbook that illustrates how to truly make the personal political.
Grassroots is an activism handbook for social justice. Aimed at everyone from students to professionals, stay-at-home moms to artists, Grassroots answers the perennial question:...
| Author | Marina Warner |
| ISBN | 0394711556 |
You are my light; my life’s illumination: you are my refuge, O mother!
Please don’t forsake me, Virgin Mary, you abode of kindness...
So runs one of the popular film songs from my youth – and it pretty much symbolises what the Virgin means to me.
Kerala, unlike other states...
| Author | Chris Grosso |
| ISBN | 1582704627 |
From a recovering addict, musician, and tattooed indie culturist: a guidebook for today’s generation of spiritual misfits who crave a dogma-free path.
Brutally honest and radically unconventional, Chris Grosso’s collection of stories and musings about his meandering journey of...
| Author | Elena Avila |
| ISBN | 1585420220 |
I finished this book over a week trip to Fresno, CA. I was astonished by the intro to the book written by Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Ph.D. Her prose was poetry and she is a poet, psychoanalyst and cantadora. Let me share a few sentences I found most enchanting. "One takes into account not only the stories of...
We Will Not Be Silenced: The Lived Experience of Sexual Harassment and Sexual Assault Told Powerfully Through Poetry, Prose, Essay, and Art is the brainchild of Kindra M. Austin, Candice Louisa Daquin, Rachel Finch, and Christine E. Ray. The four indie writers and survivors felt compelled to organize...
By the mid-twentieth century, two things appeared destined for extinction in the United States: the practice of home birth and the profession of midwifery. In 1940, close to half of all U.S. births took place in the hospital, and the trend was increasing. By 1970, the percentage of hospital births reached...
| Author | Judy Norsigian |
| ISBN | 0743274873 |
FROM THE EDITORS OF THE CLASSIC "BIBLE OF WOMEN'S HEALTH," A TRUSTWORTHY, UP-TO-DATE GUIDE TO HELP EVERY WOMAN NAVIGATE THE MENOPAUSE TRANSITION For decades, millions of women have relied on Our Bodies, Ourselves to provide the most comprehensive, honest, and accurate information on women's health....
| Author | Sabina Flanagan |
| ISBN | 0415185513 |
Until recently, Hildegard of Bingen has been known only to a handful of scholars. Now available in a paperback edition, Sabina Flanagan's book makes her remarkable life accessible to the general reader. Drawing on contemporary sources, the text unfolds Hildegard's life from the time of her entrance...
| Author | Shahla Khan |
| ISBN | 1482052040 |
A whopping 85,000 women are raped in England and Wales every year, according to the Office of National Statistics, ONS, 2013. The numbers in South Asian countries, India being on top are outrageously alarming. Are we in a position to just sit and wonder why and do nothing about it? According to Shahla...
| Author | Julia Kristeva |
| ISBN | 0231060254 |
Julia Kristeva, most often in America thought off as a feminist or gender theorist akin to Cixous or Butler, is foremost a linguist concerned with literature and also a practicing psychoanalyst. It is from these approaches that she comes to us in this superb book. "Tales of Love" is concerned with all...
| Author | Barbara Wood |
| ISBN | 0312320248 |
Millions of years ago, a meteorite fell to earth and a beautiful blue stone shattered from it. One hundred thousand years ago, a girl named Tall One found the crystal on the African plain---and it formed her destiny, as well as the destiny of generations to come. From ancient Israel to imperial Rome, medieval...
| Author | Anna Holmes |
| ISBN | 1455502804 |
From Jezebel.com, the popular website for women, comes a must-read encyclopedic guide to pop culture, feminism, fashion, sex, and much more.
Within months of Jezebel's May 2007 appearance on the new media scene, fans of the blog began referring to themselves as "Jezzies" in comment threads...
| Author | Lynn V. Andrews |
| ISBN | 1585425265 |
Lynn V. Andrews takes the reader with her as she goes on inward journeys with the help of the Sisterhood of the Shields, and relates the stories of others.
Join her as she is initiated into the Sisterhood and creates her own shield, which will show her the nature of her spiritual path (Spirit Woman)....
| Author | Susan Burton |
| ISBN | 1620972123 |
One woman’s remarkable odyssey from tragedy to prison to recovery—and recognition as a leading figure in the national justice reform movement
Susan Burton’s world changed in an instant when her five-year-old son was killed by a van on their street in South Los Angeles. Consumed by...
| Author | Malcolm C. Lyons |
| ISBN | 0141395036 |
The first English translation of this spectacular collection of medieval Arab fantasy stories
A great cache of ancient, magical stories in the same tradition as The Arabian Nights, Tales of the Marvellous and News of the Strange is an extraordinary find. Dating from at least a millennium...
Alternate Cover Edition 9781291350968
There is a season for everything.
If you enjoyed Antoine de Saint-Exupery's The Little Prince, then you'll love this.
Described as, "Moving", "Uplifting", and "Enlightening", The Girl with the Green-Tinted Hair is a spiritual...
| Author | Isabel Colegate |
| ISBN | 1582432384 |
"Few books contain a cast of characters as fascinating as those who populate A Pelican in the Wilderness, Isabel Colegate's charming meander through the history of hermits and solitaries. Elegantly written...a small gem of a book."-- Wall Street Journal From Lao-tse and the Buddha, St. Anthony and...
| Author | Ann Moura |
| ISBN | 0738702889 |
Whether you're just thinking of buying your first tarot deck or you have sixty seven decks in a basket or piled on a shelf, you will find a wise approach to the 78 cards of wisdom here.
Ann Moura gives a reasoned history. (The tarot is illusive and its precise origin is impossible to determine.)...
| Author | Hannah Hurnard |
| ISBN | 0842320806 |
Hanna Hurnard was a twentieth century Christian author, best known for her allegory Hinds' Feet on High Places.
Hurnard was born in 1905 in Colchester, England to Quaker parents. She graduated from Ridgelands Bible College of Great Britain in 1926. In 1932 she became an independent missionary,...
