compiled by Pegi Eyers
Books that kickstarted, informed, inspired and empowered Feminism and Goddess Spirituality in contemporary times.
1955
The Great Mother: An Analysis of the Archetype
by Erich Neumann
1966
The White Goddess: A Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth
by Robert Graves
1971
The First Sex
by Elizabeth Gould Davis
1976
When God Was a Woman
by Merlin Stone
1978/2016
Woman and Nature: The Roaring Inside Her
by Susan Griffin
1979/1989/1999
The Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion
of the Great Goddess
by Starhawk
1979
Womanspirit Rising: A Feminist Reader in Religion
edited by Carol Christ and Judith Plaskow
1980/2007
The Holy Book of Women’s Mysteries
by Z. Suszanna Budapest
1981/1988
Motherpeace Round Tarot Deck
by Karen Vogel and Vicki Noble
1983
The Women’s Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets
by Barbara G. Walker
1984/2004/2014
Goddesses in Everywoman:
Powerful Archetypes in Women’s Lives
by Jean Shinoda Bolen
1987
The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future
by Riane Eisler
1987
The Great Cosmic Mother:
Rediscovering the Religion of the Earth
by Monica Sjoo and Barbara Mor
1989
The Once and Future Goddess:
A Sweeping Visual Chronicle of the Sacred Female and Her Reemergence in the Cultural Mythology of Our Time
by Elinor Gadon
1990
Gyn/Ecology: The Metaethics of Radical Feminism
by Mary Daly
1990
Reweaving the World: The Emergence of Ecofeminism
by Irene Diamond
1991
The Feminine Face of God:
The Unfolding of the Sacred in Women
by Sherry Ruth Anderson and Patricia Hopkins
1991
The Myth of the Goddess: Evolution of an Image
by Anne Baring and Jules Cashford
1994
The Civilization of the Goddess: The World of Old Europe
by Marija Gimbutas
1999/2017
Islands of Women and Amazons: Representations and Realities
by Batya Weinbaum
2003
The Body of the Goddess:
Sacred Wisdom in Myth, Landscape and Culture
by Rachel Pollack
2009
Societies of Peace: Matriarchies Past, Present and Future
edited by Heidi Goettner-Abendroth
Pegi Eyers is the author of Ancient Spirit Rising: Reclaiming Your Roots & Restoring Earth Community, an award-winning book that explores strategies for social justice, uncolonization, ethnocultural identity, building land-emergent community & resilience in times of massive change. Available from Stone Circle Press or Amazon |