The only detailed history of a little-known and widely misunderstood movement, "Drawing down the moon" provides a fascinating look at the religious experiences, beliefs, and lifestyles of the neo-pagan subculture. Margot Adler attended ritual gatherings and interviewed a diverse, colorful gallery of people across the United States, people who find inspiration in ancient deities, nature, myth, even science fiction. Contrary to stereotype, what Adler...

Presents twenty-eight essays, articles, and excepts from book that describe women's rights around the world, and covers topics such as women in the public sphere, women's health care and mortality, violence against women, sex trafficking and prostitution,reproductive rights, and more.

This is a book about women who are changing the world as leaders in the public arena and whose work is religiously or spiritually motivated. [From publisher's description.

Archaeologist Connelly gives us the first comprehensive cultural history of priestesses in the ancient Greek world. Connelly presents the fullest picture yet of how priestesses lived and worked, from the most famous and sacred of them--the Delphic Oracle and the priestess of Athena Polias--to basket bearers and handmaidens. Along the way, she challenges long-held beliefs to show that priestesses played far more significant public roles in ancient...