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Wise Women: Over Two Thousand Years of Spiritual Writing by Women

by Susan Neunzig Cahill (Editor)

Other authors: Paula Gunn Allen (Contributor), Joan of Arc (Contributor), Hannah Arendt (Contributor), Teresa of Avila (Contributor), Annie Besant (Contributor)72 more, Hildegard of Bingen (Contributor), Anne Bradstreet (Contributor), Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Contributor), Willa Cather (Contributor), Pema Chodron (Contributor), Amy Clampitt (Contributor), Lucille Clifton (Contributor), Dorothy Day (Contributor), Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz (Contributor), Christine de Pisan (Contributor), Catherine de Vinck (Contributor), Emily Dickinson (Contributor), Rita Dove (Contributor), Diana Eck (Contributor), Marian Wright Edelman (Contributor), George Eliot (Contributor), Margaret Fell (Contributor), Natalia Ginzburg (Contributor), Angelina Emily Grimké, Sarah Grimke (Contributor), Joan Halifax (Contributor), Gluckel of Hameln (Contributor), Patricia Hampl (Contributor), Riffat Hassan (Contributor), Carter Heyward (Contributor), Etty Hillesum (Contributor), Linda Hogan (Contributor), bell hooks (Contributor), Anne Hutchinson (Contributor), Rebecca Jackson (Contributor), June Jordan (Contributor), Kassiani (Contributor), Margery Kempe (Contributor), Madeleine L'Engle (Contributor), Anne Lamott (Contributor), Ann Lee (Contributor), Denise Levertov (Contributor), Audre Lorde (Contributor), Mechthild of Magdeburg (Contributor), Mahādēviyakka (Contributor), Nancy Mairs (Contributor), Rigoberta Menchu (Contributor), Mirabai (Contributor), Iris Murdoch (Contributor), Florence Nightingale (Contributor), Kathleen Norris (Contributor), Julian of Norwich (Contributor), Flannery O'Connor (Contributor), Tillie Olsen (Contributor), Iris Origo (Contributor), Marge Piercy (Contributor), Judith Plaskow (Contributor), Marguerite Porete (Contributor), Rabi'a (Contributor), Eleanor Roosevelt (Contributor), Christina Rossetti (Contributor), Rosemary Radford Ruether (Contributor), Sappho (Contributor), Dorothy L. Sayers (Contributor), Florida Scott-Maxwell (Contributor), Sidqi (Contributor), Catherine of Siena (Contributor), Kabita Sinha (Contributor), Dorothee Solle (Contributor), Elizabeth Cady Stanton (Contributor), Starhawk (Contributor), Bu-er Sun (Contributor), Táhirih (Contributor), Mother Teresa (Contributor), Angela Tilby (Contributor), Phyllis Trible (Contributor), Sojourner Truth (Contributor)

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Spiritual experience is a liberating source of women's identity and their resistance to oppression. Moving from the Native American tale "The Creation of Spider Woman" and the poet-nun of Mexico Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz to the contemporary African American thinker Marian Wright Edelman and the Buddhist shaman Joan Halifax, these visionaries see justice and love, loss, aging, and freedom. It inspires them to artistic expression and political action. This deeply moving collection of memoirs, stories, poetry, letters, prayers, and theologies is a source of empowering and uplifting thought for women in any time, at any age.… (more)

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