Archive for the 'Feminism' Category

Celebrating Wicca Every Day

Times have changed dramatically since Pagans were country folk. How do city Wiccans combine a nature philosophy with the concrete jungle? The author of Cat Magic, Dancing with Devas, Victorian Grimoire and many others is back with a transformational book that offers spells, rituals, prayers, incantations, family activities, and all manner of helpful hints for [...]

Wednesday, January 28th, 2009

Drawing Down the Moon : Witches, Druids, Goddess-Worshippers and Other Pagans in America Today

Drawing Down the Moon: Witches, Druids, Goddess-Worshippers, and Other Pagans in America
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 [...]

Tuesday, March 11th, 2008

Ariadne’s Thread: A Workbook of Goddess Magic

Ariadne’s Thread: A Workbook of Goddess Magic
Using the figure of the ancient goddess Ariadne as a metaphor, Mountainwater unravels the mysteries of a woman-centered spirituality. She offers gentle guidance through the cycles of a woman’s life; the phases of the moon; the yearly nature holidays; and the aspects of divination. She concludes each chapter [...]

Friday, February 29th, 2008

Goddess™: On the Proliferation of Goddess Imagery in Popular Culture

Change happens slowly, but when it finally hits, the years of individual strides and steps culminate in a burst of change. Trouble is, change doesn’t always take effect in the ways we’d hoped.
When the “goddess movement” was birthed out of feminism in the early seventies by groups of women passionate about both political and [...]

Saturday, January 12th, 2008
I might be able to shoehorn a reference count in on top of the numeric
value by disallowing multiple references on scalars with a numeric value,
but it wouldn't be as clean. I do occasionally worry about that. --lwall