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Whatever Works: Feminists of Faith Speak

10 best books like Whatever Works: Feminists of Faith Speak (Trista Hendren): A Woman's Crusade: Alice Paul and the Battle for the Ballot, The Hiram Key, Sisters: The Lives of America's Suffragists, Witches and Pagans: Women in European Folk Religion, 700-1100, She Who Is: The Mystery of God in Feminist Theological Discourse, Crossing to Avalon: A Woman's Midlife Quest for the Sacred Feminine, The Feminine Face of God: The Unfolding of the Sacred in Women, Sacred Pleasure: Sex, Myth and the Politics of the Body, Genesis, The Meaning of Mary Magdalene: Discovering the Woman at the Heart of Christianity

A Woman's Crusade: Alice Paul and the Battle for the Ballot
AuthorMary Walton
ISBN0230611753
Alice Paul began her life as a studious girl from a strict Quaker family in New Jersey. In 1907, a scholarship took her to England, where she developed a passionate devotion to the suffrage movement. Upon her return to the United States, Alice became the leader of the militant wing of the American suffrage...
The Hiram Key
AuthorChristopher Knight
ISBN1931412758
s/t: Pharaohs, Freemasonry & the Discovery of the Secret Scrolls of Jesus
When the authors, both Masons, set out to find the origins of the Freemasonry they had no idea they would find themselves unraveling the true story of Jesus Christ and the original Jerusalem Church. Their startling and...
Sisters: The Lives of America's Suffragists
AuthorJean H. Baker
ISBN0809087030
How the Personal Became Political In the Fight to Grant Women Civil Rights

They forever changed America: Lucy Stone, Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Frances Willard, Alice Paul. At their revolution's start in the 1840s, a woman's right to speak in public was questioned. By its conclusion...
Witches and Pagans: Women in European Folk Religion, 700-1100
AuthorMax Dashu
ISBN0692740287
In recent years artists, feminists and scholars in Matriarchal Studies, Women's History and Goddess Spirituality have produced a monumental body of work, and one of these towering and influential figures is Max Dashu, who has spent 48 years excavating the western canon for evidence of women of power...
She Who Is: The Mystery of God in Feminist Theological Discourse
AuthorElizabeth A. Johnson
ISBN0824519256
I read this during theology studies, though not as part of the curriculum. (I took it with me to West Virginia while doing mission work with church youth groups.) I wish I'd read it sooner. It's changed the way I think about God and the way I think about the institutional church. It helps me that Elizabeth...
Crossing to Avalon: A Woman's Midlife Quest for the Sacred Feminine
AuthorJean Shinoda Bolen
ISBN0062502727
A Midlife Quest For The Grail And The Goddess

Dr. Jean Shinoda Bolen's extraordinary memoir celebrates the pilgrimage that heralded her spiritual awakening and leads readers down the path of self-discovery. In this account of her journey to Europe in search of the sacred feminine, she unveils...
The Feminine Face of God: The Unfolding of the Sacred in Women
AuthorSherry Ruth Anderson
ISBN0553352660
For many contemporary women, the old patriarchal models of religion are no longer relevant, forming a need to look beyond the male-oriented past to a wider, more fulfilling spiritual horizon. In this fascinating and thought-provoking book, Sherry Anderson and Patricia Hopkins show how many women...
Sacred Pleasure: Sex, Myth and the Politics of the Body
AuthorRiane Eisler
ISBN0062502832
Let me begin with a series of quotes that I (and science) do not necessarily agree with.

1. To maintain relations of domination and submission, the natural bonding of the give and take of sexual pleasure and love between the female and male halves of humanity has to be distorted. Where does this...
Genesis
AuthorRobert Alter
Genesis begins with the making of heaven and earth and all life, and ends with the image of a mummy—Joseph's—in a coffin. In between come many of the primal stories in Western culture: Adam and Eve's expulsion from the garden of Eden, Cain's murder of Abel, Noah and the Flood, the destruction of Sodom...
The Meaning of Mary Magdalene: Discovering the Woman at the Heart of Christianity
AuthorCynthia Bourgeault
ISBN1590304950
Mary Magdalene is one of the most influential symbols in the history of Christianity—yet, if you look in the Bible, you’ll find only a handful of verses that speak of her. How did she become such a compelling saint in the face of such paltry evidence? In her effort to answer that question, Cynthia Bourgeault...
Hekate: Her Sacred Fires
AuthorSorita d'Este
ISBN1905297351
Hekate Her Sacred Fires is an exceptional book for an extraordinary, eternal and universal Goddess. It brings together essays, prose and artwork from more than fifty remarkable contributors from all over the world. Their stories and revelations are challenging, their visions and determination...
The Mortician's Wife
AuthorMaralee Lowder
Five miles from the new age Mt. Shasta City, the sleepy Northern California town of Dunsmuir plays host to a nightmarish house – the Old Mortuary – where the mortician's wife spent four decades alone, and some say insane, sleeping in an alcove off one bedroom where she believed the evil spirits of...
Uppity Women of Ancient Times
AuthorVicki León
ISBN1567312497

I loved this book, full of short but fun and interesting biographies of the women who did sit idly by while history was being made around them. They all, in some "uppity" way, were part of the making of that history.


Edited to add: If you're looking for some fun historical stories, check...
Notorious Victoria: The Life of Victoria Woodhull, Uncensored
AuthorMary Gabriel
ISBN1565121325
She was the first woman to address the U.S. Congress, the first to operate a brokerage firm on Wall Street, and the first to run for president. She's the woman Gloria Steinem called "the most controversial suffragist of them all." In this extensively researched biography, journalist Mary Gabriel has...
The Woman's Bible
AuthorElizabeth Cady Stanton
4.5 Stars

~Happy Women's History Month!~


King Solomon took 700 wives and 300 concubines.

Even stepping away from romantic fiction I still can’t get away from these manwhores! ;-) But, putting my romance reading commentary aside for a moment, I’m going to organize...
God of the Possible: A Biblical Introduction to the Open View of God
AuthorGregory A. Boyd
God of the Possible by Dr. Gregory Boyd was a difficult read for me. It is a theological book that challenges the traditional view of God (mostly my ideas) and argues for the ‘open view of the future.’ It was difficult for me, not because the writing was poor or that the logic was faulty, but the exact...
Body Outlaws: Rewriting the Rules of Beauty and Body Image
AuthorOphira Edut
ISBN1580051081
Pick up a magazine, turn on the TV, and you'll find few women who haven't been fried, dyed, plucked, or tucked. In short, you'll see no body outlaws.
The writers in this groundbreaking anthology reveal a world where bodies come in all their many-splendored shapes, sizes, colors, and textures. In...
That Takes Ovaries! Bold Females and Their Brazen Acts
AuthorRivka Solomon
ISBN0609806599
Having ovaries: unabashed, gutsy, feisty, playful, challenging, full of chutzpah, mettlesome, naughty, victorious, straight from the hip, full-flavored, outrageous, righteous, loving, inspiring, bold as brass, self-assured, self-confident, self-possessed, daring, heroic, wild, wanton,...
My Name is Lilith
AuthorMonette Chilson
ISBN1542356407
Inspiration for every woman who desires strength to live her life without the restrictions placed upon her by misogynists and our patriarchal society

I knew little about Lilith. I read a sample of a novel about her. It was only a sample, and I couldn’t read the book for free so I went on a search...
Bhagavad Gita and Its Message
AuthorSri Aurobindo
ISBN0941524787
The wisdom of Sri Aurobindo

The essential message of BhagavadGita according to Sri Aurobindo is the evolutionary philosophy. His principle work, Life Divine differed from the traditional teachings of Hinduism. His message was that liberation from the cycle of life & death is not the...
Spiritual Cross-Training: Searching Through Silence, Stretch, and Song
AuthorBenjamin Shalva
ISBN1503950484
On a quest for enlightenment, Benjamin Shalva journeyed through the wilds of Tibet and took a pilgrimage to a white-walled monastery in Rhode Island. He wrestled with demons, danced with temptresses, and sang with hundreds of voices under the stars. Now, using the lessons and techniques gained through...
The Encyclopedia of Amazons: Women Warriors from Antiquity to the Modern Era
AuthorJessica Amanda Salmonson
ISBN1557784205
A unique and comprehensive encyclopedia of more than 1,000 valiant female combatants who have appeared in history, mythology, and literature from the dawn of history to the present day."An excellent piece of scholarly detective work...offers information not found in other reference sources"—Library...
The Gospel of Mary Magdalene
AuthorAnonymous
ISBN0892819111
Restores to the forefront of the Christian tradition the importance of the divine feminine

• The first complete English-language translation of the original Coptic Gospel of Mary, with line-by-line commentary

• Reveals the eminence of the divine feminine in Christian thought

•...
Opening the Gates: An Anthology of Arab Feminist Writing
AuthorMargot Badran
ISBN0253217032
Praise for the first edition:

"An impressive collection of more than 50 pieces--essays, poems, folktales, short stories, memoirs, film scripts, lectures/speeches--by Arab women challenging the widely accepted view of Middle Eastern women as submissive non-thinkers to whom feminism...
No Constitutional Right to Be Ladies: Women and the Obligations of Citizenship
AuthorLinda K. Kerber
ISBN0809073846
This pioneering study redefines women's history in the United States by focusing on civic obligations rather than rights. Looking closely at thirty telling cases from the pages of American legal history, Kerber's analysis reaches from the Revolution, when married women did not have the same obligation...
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