Witches and Pagans: Women in European Folk Religion, 700-1100
10 best books like Witches and Pagans: Women in European Folk Religion, 700-1100 (Max Dashu): Zami: A New Spelling of My Name, Black Looks: Race and Representation, Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics, Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger, The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction, The Black Unicorn: Poems, All About Love: New Visions, Re-visioning Medusa: from Monster to Divine Wisdom, If Women Rose Rooted: The Power of the Celtic Woman, Why Confederates Fought: Family and Nation in Civil War Virginia
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
| Author | Audre Lorde |
| ISBN | 0895941228 |
in college, in the late 80s and early 90s, i discovered that i had two aunts. this is one (and this is another). aunt Audre intimidated me at first. she was a stern, moody, melancholy woman who had lived a life of so many ups and downs. but as i got to know her, her innate gentleness became clear. this was a woman...
Black Looks: Race and Representation
| Author | bell hooks |
| ISBN | 0896084337 |
Wide ranging and full of insight, Black Looks critiques the many ways American pop culture exploits, oppresses, and dehumanizes Black people through stereotyped representations. Across twelve short essays hooks examines how pop music, advertising, literature, and, especially, film work in...
Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics
| Author | bell hooks |
| ISBN | 0896086283 |
Acclaimed cultural critic bell hooks offers an open-hearted and welcoming vision of gender, sexuality, and society in this inspiring and accessible volume. In engaging and provocative style, bell hooks introduces a popular theory of feminism rooted in common sense and the wisdom of experience....
Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger
| Author | Soraya Chemaly |
| ISBN | 1501189557 |
A transformative book urging twenty-first century-women to embrace their anger and harness it as a tool for lasting personal and societal change.
Women are angry, and it isn’t hard to figure out why.
We are underpaid and overworked. Too sensitive, or not sensitive enough. Too...
The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction
| Author | Michel Foucault |
| ISBN | 0679724699 |
This is a perfect example of the kind of writing characterised by Clive James as prose that ‘scorns the earth for fear of a puncture’. Foucault may be able to think – it's not easy to tell – but he certainly can't write.
Everywhere there is an apparent desire to render a simple thought impenetrable....
| Author | Audre Lorde |
| ISBN | 0393312372 |
Rich continues: "Refusing to be circumscribed by any simple identity, Audre Lorde writes as a Black woman, a mother, a daughter, a Lesbian, a feminist, a visionary; poems of elemental wildness and healing, nightmare and lucidity. Her rhythms and accents have the timelessness of a poetry which extends...
All About Love: New Visions
| Author | bell hooks |
| ISBN | 0688168442 |
All About Love offers radical new ways to think about love by showing its interconnectedness in our private and public lives. In eleven concise chapters, hooks explains how our everyday notions of what it means to give and receive love often fail us, and how these ideals are established in early childhood....
Re-visioning Medusa: from Monster to Divine Wisdom
| Author | Glenys Livingstone |
| ISBN | 1544179650 |
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If Women Rose Rooted: The Power of the Celtic Woman
'Rising high up on the heather-covered moorlands, seeping through our bogs, flowing down our streams and into our rivers and out onto the sandy strands of the rock-strewn Atlantic seaboard, are the old Celtic myths and stories … waiting to be reclaimed and re-visioned for the modern world.'
Aged...
Why Confederates Fought: Family and Nation in Civil War Virginia
| Author | Aaron Sheehan-Dean |
| ISBN | 0807831581 |
In the first comprehensive study of the experience of Virginia soldiers and their families in the Civil War, Aaron Sheehan-Dean captures the inner world of the rank-and-file. Utilizing new statistical evidence and first-person narratives, Sheehan-Dean explores how Virginia soldiers--even...
Switching Sides: How a Generation of Historians Lost Sympathy for the Victims of the Salem Witch Hunt
| Author | Tony Fels |
| ISBN | 1421424371 |
For most historians living through the fascist and communist tyrannies that culminated in World War II and the Cold War, the Salem witch trials signified the threat to truth and individual integrity posed by mass ideological movements. Work on the trials produced in this era, including Arthur Miller's...
Thunder at the Gates: The Black Civil War Regiments That Redeemed America
| Author | Douglas R. Egerton |
| ISBN | 0465096646 |
An authoritative history of the first black regiments in American history, whose members helped transform the Civil War from a white man’s conflict into a revolutionary struggle for freedom
Soon after Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, abolitionists...
On America and the Civil War
| Author | Karl Marx |
| ISBN | 0070480788 |
The American Civil War so profoundly shaped Marx and Engels's understanding of social revolution and international politics that it marks a watershed in the history of communism as much as it does in the history of the United States. A complete revision of the 1937 edition of the Civil War writings of...
Remembering the Civil War: Reunion and the Limits of Reconciliation
| Author | Caroline E. Janney |
| ISBN | 1469607069 |
As early as 1865, survivors of the Civil War were acutely aware that people were purposefully shaping what would be remembered about the war and what would be omitted from the historical record. In Remembering the Civil War, Caroline E. Janney examines how the war generation--men and women, black and...
Humanism and Democratic Criticism
| Author | Edward W. Said |
| ISBN | 0231122640 |
In the radically changed and highly charged political atmosphere that has overtaken the United States--and to varying degrees the rest of the world--since September 11, 2001, the notion that cultures can harmoniously and productively coexist has come to seem like little more than a quaint fiction....
Young Man Luther: A Study in Psychoanalysis and History
| Author | Erik H. Erikson |
| ISBN | 0393310361 |
This was a tremendously refreshing book to read as a supplement to coursework in the history of the reformation. Erik Erikson's first book-length psychoanalytic study of a major historical figure, Young Man Luther focuses on the very private person rather than the monk, author, translator, theologian...
The story of the greatly misunderstood Goddess, including why she likes snakes. 'My name is Medusa' explores the "scary" dark side, the potency of nature and the importance of dreams.
"Medusa was "once a solar divinity, a great goddess whose very name means 'ruler of humanity'": that is part...
Freedom National: The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861-1865
| Author | James Oakes |
| ISBN | 0393065316 |
A powerful history of emancipation that reshapes our understanding of Lincoln, the Civil War, and the end of American slavery.
Freedom National is a groundbreaking history of emancipation that joins the political initiatives of Lincoln and the Republicans in Congress with the courageous...
