Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Preface: Grassroots Uprising to Graduate Degrees in Women's
Spirituality (Vicki Noble)
Introduction: On My Path (Miriam Robbins Dexter)
Part I: Scholars
Chapter 1: Our Quest for Spiritual Authenticity (Charlene Spretnak)
Chapter 2: The Life and Work of a Feminist Goddess Theologian (Carol P. Christ)
Chapter 3: Resurgence (Max Dashú)
Chapter 4: My Spirituality Holds the Meaning of Life for Me (Elinor W. Gadon)
Chapter 5: Women’s Spirituality and Higher Education (Mara Lynn Keller)
Chapter 6: Women’s Spirituality: From Domination to Partnership (Riane Eisler)
Chapter 7: Dakinis Dancing Through Space and Time, Into Our
Bodies and Minds (Miranda Shaw)
Chapter 8: Adventures She Has Brought My Way (Starr Goode)
Chapter 9: Cultivating Sacred Ground (Joan Marler)
Chapter 10: The Journey of a Matriarchal Scholar in a Patriarchal World (Heide Goettner-Abendroth *Translated from German by Karen Smith)
Part II: Indigenous Mind and Mother Earth
Chapter 11: Still Crazy After All These Tears (Luisah Teish)
Chapter 12: Ancient Wisdom, Sustaining Harmony (Brooke Medicine Eagle)
Chapter 13: Earth Healing, Earth Action (Starhawk)
Chapter 14: Spirit’reality, In the Spirit of We’Moon (Musawa)
Chapter 15: Green Witch, High Priestess of the Goddess (Susun S. Weed)
Chapter 16: Transformation from Midwife to Priestess (Jane Hardwicke Collings)
Chapter 17: Conceiving and Nurturing a Poiesis of Her (Glenys Livingstone)
Part III: Ritual and Ceremony
Chapter 18: LA Story (Z Budapest)
Chapter 19: Serving the Mother (Hallie Austen Iglehart)
Chapter 20: On Weaving a Web Around the World (Mama Donna Henes, Urban Shaman)
Chapter 21: The Life of a Priestess (Kathy Jones)
Chapter 22: When We Re-Discovered the Power of Women's Mysteries (Ruth Barrett)
Chapter 23: The Tantric Dance of Feminine Power in the Fourth
Wave of Feminism (Vajra Ma)
Part IV: Artists and Activists
Chapter 24: A Romance of Poets (Judy Grahn)
Chapter 25: Love of the Goddess (Karen Vogel)
Chapter 26: Early Artistic Work Inspired by My Activism in the 1970s (Cristina Biaggi)
Chapter 27: A Beginning but No Ending (Donna Read)
Chapter 28: My Muses: Glinda The Good, Merlin Stone, and Marija Gimbutas (Mary Mackey)
Chapter 29: My Journey to the Goddess (Lydia Ruyle)
Chapter 30: Krissy Keefer, The Genius Behind Wallflower Order, Dance Brigade, and Dance Mission (Vicki Noble)
Part V: Philosopher and Humanitarian
Chapter 31: Promises Kept (Genevieve Vaughan)
Appendix
Index
About the Editors and Contributors