Research Catalog

Title

The Politics of women's spirituality : essays on the rise of spiritual power within the feminist movement / edited by Charlene Spretnak.

Publication

Garden City, N.Y. : Anchor Books, 1982.

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Details

Additional Authors

Spretnak, Charlene, 1946-

Description

xxx, 590 p.; 22 cm.

Subject

• Feminist spirituality
• Feminism > Religious aspects
• Women > Religious life
• Goddess religion

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. [581]-590.

Contents

The Great Goddess : who was she? / Merlin Stone -- Women and culture in Goddess-oriented Old Europe / Marija Gimbutas -- Prepatriarchal female/Goddess images / Adrienne Rich -- The origins of music : women's Goddess worship / Sophie Drinker -- Witchcraft as Goddess religion / Starhawk -- From the house of Yemanja : the Goddess heritage of Black women / Sabrina Sojourner -- The three faces of Goddess spirituality / Merlin Stone -- Why women need the Goddess / Carol P. Christ -- Ancient mirrors of womanhood / Merlin Stone -- The Amazon legacy / Phyllis Chesler -- Tales of a reincarnated Amazon princess : the invincible Wonder Woman! / Gloria Steinem -- Growing up with legends of the Chinese swordswomen / Stew Hwa Beh -- Meanings of matriarchy / Margot Adler -- Drawing from mythology in women's quest for selfhood / Bella Debrida -- Our heritage is our power / Judy Chicago -- A consciousness manifesto / Nancy F.W. Passmore -- Consciousness, politics, and magic / Starhawk -- The metaphors of power / Barbara Starrett -- Womanpower : energy re-sourcement / Sally Gearhart -- Gyn/ecology : spinning new time/space / Mary Daly -- Feminist witchcraft : controlling our own inner space / Naomi Goldenberg -- Contemporary feminist rituals / Kay Turner -- Honor and ceremony in women's rituals / E.M. Broner -- Images and models--in process / Juanita Weaver -- Martial art meditations / Emily E. Culpepper -- From sacred blood to the Curse and beyond / Judy Grahn -- The healing powers of women / Chellis Glendinning -- Expanding personal power through meditation / Hallie Iglehart -- Feeding the feminist psyche through ritual theater / Batya Podos -- See for yourself : women's spirituality in holistic art / Mary Beth Edelson -- Images of spiritual power in women's fiction / Carol P. Christ and Charlene Spretnak -- Sisterhood as cosmic covenant / Mary Daly -- The personal is political / Sheila D. Collins -- Dimensions of spirituality / Judy Davis and Juanita Weaver -- Politics, spirituality, and models of change / Dorothy I. Riddle -- The politics of feminist spirituality / Anne Kent Rush -- Metaphysical feminism / Robin Morgan -- The politics of women's spirituality / Charlene Spretnak -- Feminist spirituality : the politics of the psyche / Judith Antonelli -- The unnatural divorce of spirituality and politics / Hallie Iglehart -- Ethics and justice in Goddess religion / Starhawk -- WITCH : spooking the patriarchy during the late Sixties -- On common ground : Native American and feminist spirituality approaches in the struggle to save Mother Earth / Judith Todd -- Spiritual dimensions of feminist anti-nuclear activism / Gina Foglia and Dorit Wolffberg -- Spiritual techniques for re-powering survivors of sexual assault / Carolyn R. Shaffer -- The Christian Right's "holy war" against feminism / Charlene Spretnak -- The voice of women's spirituality in futurism / Baba Copper -- Women's collective spirit / Grace Shinell -- Does hierarchy have a place in women's spirituality?: Spiritual hierarchies : the empress' new clothes? / Gloria Z. Greenfield. The vows, wows, and joys of the high priestess, or What do you people do anyway? / Z. Budapest -- Are goddesses and matriarchies merely figments of feminist imagination? / Sally R. Binford ; Merlin Stone and Charlene Spretnak.

Call Number

JLD 82-551

ISBN

• 0385172419
• 0385177704

LCCN

80002876 //r82

OCLC

• 7272396
• NYPG82-B23505

Title

The Politics of women's spirituality : essays on the rise of spiritual power within the feminist movement / edited by Charlene Spretnak.

Imprint

Garden City, N.Y. : Anchor Books, 1982.

Edition

1st ed.

Bibliography

Bibliography: p. [581]-590.

Added Author

Spretnak, Charlene, 1946-

Research Call Number

JLD 82-551

Sc D 96-203