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Sacred (& Other) Texts: Recommended Reading 

 

Abarbanell, Nitza. (1994). Havah ve Lilit. (Hebrew). Tel Aviv: Bar-Ilan University.

Alcoff, Linda, ed. & Potter, Elizabeth, illus. (1993). Feminist Epistemologies, New York: Routledge.

Ann, Martha & Imel, Dorothy Myers. (1993). Goddesses in World Mythology. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Bartky, Sandra Lee. (1990). Femininity and Domination, studies in the phenomenology of oppression. New York and London: Routledge.

Birnbaum, Lucia. (1993). Black Madonnas: feminism, religion, & politics in Italy. Boston: Northeastern University Press.

____(2002).  Dark Mother.  IUniverse.

Black, Jeremy & Green, Anthony. (1992). Gods, Demons and Symbols of Ancient Mesopotamia. Austin: University of Texas Press.

Broca, Lilian (artwork) and Kogawa, Joy (poem).  (2000).  A Song of Lilith.  Vancouver, Canada: Polestar (www.raincoast.com).

Buchwald, Emilie; Fletcher, Pamela & Roth, Martha, eds. (1993). Transforming A Rape Culture. Minneapolis: Milkweed.

Caplan, Paula J. (1985). The Myth of Women’s Masochism. New York: Signet.

Daly, Mary. (1987). Webster’s First New Intergalactic Wickedary of the English Language . Boston: Beacon Press.

Dame, Edith; Rivlin, Lilly; Wenkart, Henny, eds. (1999).    Which Lilith?  Feminist Writers Recreate the First Woman.  New Jersey: Jason Aronson Inc.

Dan, Joseph. (1987). Gershom Scholem and the Mystical Dimension of Jewish History. New York: New York University Press.

Ehrhardt, Jana U. (1994) Good Girls go to Heaven, Bad Girls go Everywhere.   New York: St. Martin’s Press.

Eilberg-Schwartz, Howard. (1994). God’s Phallus, and other problems for men and monotheism. Boston: Beacon Press.

Eisler, Riane (1987). The Chalice and The Blade: Our History, Our Future. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco.

Ellison, Marvin. (1996). Erotic Justice. Louisville: Westminster/John Knox Press.

Fabian, Cosi. (1991). "Liturgy For Lilith". San Francisco.

Fabian, Cosi. (1992). "The Banished Goddess: In Praise of Lilith" (audio cassette). San Francisco.

Falk, Marcia.  (1973).  Song of Songs.  San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco.

Falk, Marcia.  (1996).  The Book of Blessings.   San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco.

Fiorenza, Elizabeth Schussler, ed. (1996). The Power of Naming: A Concilium Reader in Feminist Liberation Theology.  Maryknoll: Orbis Books.

Flinders, Carol - Enduring Grace

Flinders, Carol - At the Root of this Longing

Fonow, Mary Margaret & Cook, Judith A. (1991). Beyond Methodology: Feminist Scholarship as Lived Research. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

Frankel, Ellen M. (1996). The Five Books of Miriam: A Woman’s Commentary on the Torah. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons.

Gadon Elinor. (1989) The Once and Future Goddess. SanFrancisco: HarperSanFrancisco.

Gaster, Moses. (1925-1928). Studies and Texts in Folklore, Magic, Medieval Romance, Hebrew Apocrypha and Samaritan Archaeology. London: Maggs Bros.

George, Demetra. (1992). Mysteries of the Dark Moon: The Healing Power of the Dark Goddess. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco.

Gilligan, Carol. (1993). Meeting at the Crossroads: Women’s Psychology and Girls’ Development. New York: Ballantine Books.

Gimbutas, Marija. (1989). The Language of the Goddess. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco.

Gottlieb, Rabbi Lynn. (1995). She Who Dwells Within: A Feminist Vision of a Renewed Judaism. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco.

Grahn, Judy. (1987). Queen of Swords. Boston: Beacon Press.

Grahn, Judy. (1993). Blood, Bread and Roses: How Menstruation Created the World. Boston: Beacon Press.

Greenberg, Blu.  (1981).  On Women and Judaism.  Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society.

Grenn Saldinger, Anne. (2001).  Life in a Nazi Concentration Camp.   San Diego:Lucent Books.

Grenn-Scott, Deborah.  (2000).  Lilith's Fire: Reclaiming Our Sacred Lifeforce.  Upublish.com

Griffin, Susan. (1978). Woman & Nature: The Roaring Inside Her. New York: Harper & Row.

Havrelock, Rachel.  (1996).   Women on the Biblical Road: Ruth, Naomi & The Female Journey.  Lanham: University Press of America, Inc.

Heyward, Carter (1989). Touching Our Strength: The Erotic as Power and the Love of God. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco.

Hillel, Rachel. (1998). The Redemption of the Feminine Erotic Soul.  York Beach: Nicolas Hays, Inc.

Hirschfield, Jane, ed. (1994). Women In Praise of the Sacred, 43 Centuries of Spiritual Poetry by Women. New York: Harper Perennial.

Hunt, Morton. (1959). The Natural History of Love.  New York: Alfred A. Knopf.

Hurwitz, Sigmund. (1992). Lilith – The First Eve. Einsiedeln, Switzerland: Daimon Verlag.

Irigaray, Luce (1989). thinking the difference: for a peaceful revolution. New York: Routledge.

Jamieson, Kathleen Hall (1995).  Beyond The Double Bind: Women and Leadership.   New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Johnson, Buffie. (1988). Lady of the Beasts: Ancient Images of the Goddess and Her Sacred Animals. San Francisco: Harper & Row.

Knapp, Bettina L. (1998). Women, Myth, and the Feminine Principle. Albany: State University of New York Press.

Koltuv, Barbara Black. (1986). The Book of Lilith. York Beach: Nicolas-Hays, Inc.

Kramer, Samuel. (1944). Sumerian Mythology. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.

Lakoff, Robin. (1975). Language and Woman’s Place. New York: Octagon Press.

Lerner, Gerda. (1993). The Creation of Feminist Consciousness, from the Middle Ages to 1870. New York: Oxford University Press.

Long, Asphodel P., Pirani, Alix, ed. (1991). The Absent Mother: Restoring the Goddess to Judaism and Christianity. Hammersmith, London: Mandala.

Lorde, Audre. (1984). Sister Outsider. Trumansburg: The Crossing Press.

MacCulloch, John Arnott, ed. (1930). Mythology of All Races: Eddic Mythology. Boston: Archaeological Institute of America, Marshall Jones Co.

Matthews, Caitlin. (1992). Sophia, Goddess of Wisdom. Hammersmith, London: Aquarian/Thorsons.

Meador, Betty De Shong. (1992). Uncursing The Dark.  Wilmette: Chiron Publications.

Moskovitz, Patti.  The Complete Bar/Bat Mitzvah Book: Everything you need to plan a meaningful celebration. 

Moskovitz, Patti and Berkowitz, Allan.  Embracing The Covenant: Converts to Judaism talk about why and how. 

Naveh, Joseph & Shaked, Saul. (1985). Amulets and Magic Bowls: Aramaic Incantations of Late Antiquity. Jerusalem: The Magnes Press, The Hebrew University.

Njoroge, Nyambura & Kanyoro, Musimbi, eds.  ( (1997).  Groaning in Faith: African Women in the Household of God.  Kenya: Acton Publishers.

    Sponsored by the Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians, this anthology of papers by twenty-five women from eastern and southern Africa covers many of the ways in which women

Noble, Vicki. (1991). Shakti Woman: Feeling Our Fire, Healing Our World, The New Female Shamanism. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco.

Ostriker, Alicia Suskin. (1993). Feminist Revision and the Bible. Oxford, UK & Cambridge, USA: Blackwell Publishers.

Patai, Raphael. (1967). The Hebrew Goddess. Detroit: Wayne State University Press.

Phillips, John A. (1984). Eve: The History of an Idea. San Francisco: Harper & Row.

Raver, Miki.  (1998).  Listen To Her Voice: Women of the Hebrew Bible.

Reinharz, Shulamit. (1992). Feminist Methods in Social Research.   New York: Oxford University Press.

Roaf, Michael. (1990). Cultural Atlas of the World: Mesopotamia and the Ancient Near East. Alexandria, VA: Stonehenge Press.

Schaef, Anne Wilson & Pearson, Carol S. (1992). Women’s Reality. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco.

Scholem, Gershom, ed. (1971). Encyclopedia Judaica, "Lilith" section. Jerusalem: The Macmillan Company, Keter Publishing House Ltd.

Schwartz, Howard. (1998). Reimagining The Bible: The Storytelling of the Rabbis.   New York: Oxford University Press.

Sered, Susan.  (1992).  Women As Ritual Experts.  New York: Oxford University Press.

_____(1994).  Priestess, Mother, Sacred Sister: Religions Dominated By Women.  New York: Oxford University Press.

_____(1999).  Women of the Sacred Groves: Divine Priestesses of Okinawa.  New York: Oxford University Press.  

Sherman, Susan (1974). With Anger/With Love, Selections: Poems & Prose (1963-1972). Amherst: Mulch Press.

Spender, Dale. (1985). For The Record: The Making and Meaning of Feminist Knowledge.. London: The Women’s Press Limited.

Starhawk (1982). Dreaming The Dark.  Boston: Beacon Press.

Starhawk & Macha NightMare, co-eds.  The Pagan Book of Living & Dying.  San Francisco: Harper & Row.

Starhawk.  (2000).  Twelve Wild Swans.  San Francisco: Harper & Row.

Stern, David and Mirsky, Mark J. (1990). Rabbinic Fantasies; "The Alphabet of Ben Sira". New Haven: Yale University Press. 

Teish, Luisah.  (1985).  Jambalaya, The natural woman's book of personal charms and practical rituals.  New York: Harper & Row.

_____(1994).  Carnival of the Spirits: Seasonal celebrations and rites of passage.  San Francisco: HarperCollins.

_____(2000).  Jump Up!  Good Times Throughout the Seasons with Celebrations from Around the World.  San Francisco: Harper Collins.

Teubal, Savina J.  (1984).  Sarah The Priestess.  Athens: Swallow Press/Ohio University Press.

Teubal, Savina J. Ancient Sisterhood.

Teubal, Savina J. (1990).   Hagar The Egyptian.   HarperSanFrancisco.

Umansky, Ellen M. (1992). Four Centuries of Jewish Women’s Spirituality. Boston: Beacon Press.

Unterman, Alan. (1991). Dictionary of Jewish Lore and Legend. London: Thames and Ltd., London.

Van Leeuwen, Mary Stewart, ed. (1993). After Eden: Facing the Challenge of Gender Reconciliation. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company.

Van Vuuren, Nancy. (1973). The Subversion of Women, as practiced by churches, witch-hunters and other sexists.  Philadelphia: The Westminster Press.

Walker, Barbara. (1988). The Woman’s Dictionary of Symbols & Sacred Objects. San Francisco: Harper & Row.

Warner, Marina. (1994). From The Beast to The Blonde.  New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux.

Wolf, Naomi. (1997). Promiscuities. New York: Random House.

Wolfson, Eliot J.; Silberstein, Laurence J. & Cohn, Robert L., eds. (1994). The Other in Jewish Thought and History: Constructions of Jewish Culture and Identity; "Woman—The Feminine as Other in Theosophic Kabbalah: Some Philosophical Observations on the Divine Androgyne",  . New York: New York University Press.

Wolkstein, Diane & Kramer, Samuel N. (1983). Inanna Queen of Heaven and Earth. New York: Harper and Row Publishers.

Zeitlin, Froma; Hawley, Richard & Levick, Barbara, eds. (1995). Women in Antiquity: new assessments; "Signifying Difference: The Myth of Pandora" essay.  London & New York: Routledge.

 

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE / ACQUAINTANCE RAPE LIST:

Domestic Violence for Beginners, Alisa Deltufo

Defending Our Lives: Getting Away from Domestic Violence & Staying Safe, Susan Murphy-Milano (Contains a valuable National Directory of Domestic Violence Programs)

A Woman Scorned: acquaintance rape on trial, Peggy Reeves Sanday

New Beginnings: A Creative Writing Guide for Women Who Have Left Abusive Partners,             Sharon Doane

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

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