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Mommy Wars
Stay-at-Home and Career Moms Face Off on Their Choices, Their Lives, Their Families
Written by Leslie Morgan Steiner
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: February 27, 2007
Price: $16.00
With motherhood comes one of the toughest decisions of a woman’s life: Stay at home or pursue a career? The dilemma not only divides mothers into hostile, defensive camps but pits individual mothers against themselves. Leslie Morgan Steiner has been there. As an executive at The Washington Post, a writer, and... Read more >
Stay-at-Home and Career Moms Face Off on Their Choices, Their Lives, Their Families
Written by Leslie Morgan Steiner
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: February 27, 2007
Price: $16.00
With motherhood comes one of the toughest decisions of a woman’s life: Stay at home or pursue a career? The dilemma not only divides mothers into hostile, defensive camps but pits individual mothers against themselves. Leslie Morgan Steiner has been there. As an executive at The Washington Post, a writer, and... Read more >
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Mommy Wars
Stay-at-Home and Career Moms Face Off on Their Choices, Their Lives, Their Families
Written by Leslie Morgan Steiner
Format: eBook
On Sale: February 27, 2007
Price: $13.99
With motherhood comes one of the toughest decisions of a woman’s life: Stay at home or pursue a career? The dilemma not only divides mothers into hostile, defensive camps but pits individual mothers against themselves. Leslie Morgan Steiner has been there. As an executive at The Washington Post, a writer, and... Read more >
Stay-at-Home and Career Moms Face Off on Their Choices, Their Lives, Their Families
Written by Leslie Morgan Steiner
Format: eBook
On Sale: February 27, 2007
Price: $13.99
With motherhood comes one of the toughest decisions of a woman’s life: Stay at home or pursue a career? The dilemma not only divides mothers into hostile, defensive camps but pits individual mothers against themselves. Leslie Morgan Steiner has been there. As an executive at The Washington Post, a writer, and... Read more >
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Flapper
A Madcap Story of Sex, Style, Celebrity, and the Women Who Made America Modern
Written by Joshua Zeitz
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: February 6, 2007
Price: $15.00
Blithely flinging aside the Victorian manners that kept her disapproving mother corseted, the New Woman of the 1920s puffed cigarettes, snuck gin, hiked her hemlines, danced the Charleston, and necked in roadsters. More important, she earned her own keep, controlled her own destiny, and secured liberties that modern women take for... Read more >
A Madcap Story of Sex, Style, Celebrity, and the Women Who Made America Modern
Written by Joshua Zeitz
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: February 6, 2007
Price: $15.00
Blithely flinging aside the Victorian manners that kept her disapproving mother corseted, the New Woman of the 1920s puffed cigarettes, snuck gin, hiked her hemlines, danced the Charleston, and necked in roadsters. More important, she earned her own keep, controlled her own destiny, and secured liberties that modern women take for... Read more >
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Geisha
A Photographic History, 1872-1912
Written by Stanley B. Burns, M.D. and Elizabeth A. Burns
Format: Hardcover, 80 pages
On Sale: December 1, 2006
Price: $39.95
Japanese geisha and courtesans intrigue and fascinate Westerners. During the mid-nineteenth century, Japan opened its doors to the world and became an essential destination for travelers. Tourists desired images of landscapes and traditional Japanese culture, which Japanese photographers provided. They created souvenir albums consisting of hand-colored photographs individually chosen by the... Read more >
A Photographic History, 1872-1912
Written by Stanley B. Burns, M.D. and Elizabeth A. Burns
Format: Hardcover, 80 pages
On Sale: December 1, 2006
Price: $39.95
Japanese geisha and courtesans intrigue and fascinate Westerners. During the mid-nineteenth century, Japan opened its doors to the world and became an essential destination for travelers. Tourists desired images of landscapes and traditional Japanese culture, which Japanese photographers provided. They created souvenir albums consisting of hand-colored photographs individually chosen by the... Read more >
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The New Single Woman
Written by E. Kay Trimberger
Format: Trade Paperback, 344 pages
On Sale: October 15, 2006
Price: $16.00
Drawing on stories from diverse women who have been single for many years, Trimberger explodes the idea that fulfillment comes only through coupling with a soulmate. Instead she presents an exciting new identity for women in the twenty-first century: the new single woman--a woman who is content with her single life.
These... Read more >
Written by E. Kay Trimberger
Format: Trade Paperback, 344 pages
On Sale: October 15, 2006
Price: $16.00
Drawing on stories from diverse women who have been single for many years, Trimberger explodes the idea that fulfillment comes only through coupling with a soulmate. Instead she presents an exciting new identity for women in the twenty-first century: the new single woman--a woman who is content with her single life.
These... Read more >
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The New Single Woman
Written by E. Kay Trimberger
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 15, 2006
Price: $14.95
Drawing on stories from diverse women who have been single for many years, Trimberger explodes the idea that fulfillment comes only through coupling with a soulmate. Instead she presents an exciting new identity for women in the twenty-first century: the new single woman--a woman who is content with her single life.
These... Read more >
Written by E. Kay Trimberger
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 15, 2006
Price: $14.95
Drawing on stories from diverse women who have been single for many years, Trimberger explodes the idea that fulfillment comes only through coupling with a soulmate. Instead she presents an exciting new identity for women in the twenty-first century: the new single woman--a woman who is content with her single life.
These... Read more >
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The Other Side of War
Women's Stories of Survival and Hope
Written by Zainab Salbi
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: September 19, 2006
Price: $28.00
Zainab Salbi's media profile soared with her first book, Between Two Worlds, a memoir of growing up in Saddam Hussein's inner circle. She has been a guest on "Oprah," has been interviewed by Katie Couric, Al Franken, and George Stephanopoulos, and has been profiled in the New York Times, The Washington... Read more >
Women's Stories of Survival and Hope
Written by Zainab Salbi
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: September 19, 2006
Price: $28.00
Zainab Salbi's media profile soared with her first book, Between Two Worlds, a memoir of growing up in Saddam Hussein's inner circle. She has been a guest on "Oprah," has been interviewed by Katie Couric, Al Franken, and George Stephanopoulos, and has been profiled in the New York Times, The Washington... Read more >
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Viva Colores
A Salute to the Indomitable People of Guatemala
Text by David Hill
Photographed by Paola Ginaturco
Format: Hardcover, 144 pages
On Sale: September 1, 2006
Price: $39.95
The joyful cacophony of color that envelopes visitors to Guatemala may seem misplaced at first. After all, the nation has only recently emerged from a 36-year civil war that destroyed its infrastructure and claimed more than a million lives. But to the authors of ¡Viva Colores!: A Salute to the Indomitable... Read more >
A Salute to the Indomitable People of Guatemala
Text by David Hill
Photographed by Paola Ginaturco
Format: Hardcover, 144 pages
On Sale: September 1, 2006
Price: $39.95
The joyful cacophony of color that envelopes visitors to Guatemala may seem misplaced at first. After all, the nation has only recently emerged from a 36-year civil war that destroyed its infrastructure and claimed more than a million lives. But to the authors of ¡Viva Colores!: A Salute to the Indomitable... Read more >
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Backlash
The Undeclared War Against American Women
Written by Susan Faludi
Format: Trade Paperback, 592 pages
On Sale: August 15, 2006
Price: $14.95
Skillfully Probing the Attack on Women’s Rights
“Opting-out,” “security moms,” “desperate housewives,” “the new baby fever”—the trend stories of 2006 leave no doubt that American women are still being barraged by the same backlash messages that Susan Faludi brilliantly exposed in her 1991 bestselling book of revelations. Now, the book that reignited... Read more >
The Undeclared War Against American Women
Written by Susan Faludi
Format: Trade Paperback, 592 pages
On Sale: August 15, 2006
Price: $14.95
Skillfully Probing the Attack on Women’s Rights
“Opting-out,” “security moms,” “desperate housewives,” “the new baby fever”—the trend stories of 2006 leave no doubt that American women are still being barraged by the same backlash messages that Susan Faludi brilliantly exposed in her 1991 bestselling book of revelations. Now, the book that reignited... Read more >
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Storming Caesar's Palace
How Black Mothers Fought Their Own War on Poverty
Written by Annelise Orleck
Format: Trade Paperback, 376 pages
On Sale: July 1, 2006
Price: $25.00
In Storming Caesars Palace, historian Annelise Orleck tells the compelling story of how a group of welfare mothers built one of this country's most successful antipoverty programs. Declaring "We can do it and do it better," these women proved that poor mothers are the real experts on poverty. In 1972 they... Read more >
How Black Mothers Fought Their Own War on Poverty
Written by Annelise Orleck
Format: Trade Paperback, 376 pages
On Sale: July 1, 2006
Price: $25.00
In Storming Caesars Palace, historian Annelise Orleck tells the compelling story of how a group of welfare mothers built one of this country's most successful antipoverty programs. Declaring "We can do it and do it better," these women proved that poor mothers are the real experts on poverty. In 1972 they... Read more >
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A World Apart
Women, Prison, and Life Behind Bars
Written by Cristina Rathbone
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: June 13, 2006
Price: $16.00
“Life in a women’s prison is full of surprises,” writes Cristina Rathbone in her landmark account of life at MCI-Framingham. And so it is. After two intense court battles with prison officials, Rathbone gained unprecedented access to the otherwise invisible women of the oldest running women’s prison in America.
The picture... Read more >
Women, Prison, and Life Behind Bars
Written by Cristina Rathbone
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: June 13, 2006
Price: $16.00
“Life in a women’s prison is full of surprises,” writes Cristina Rathbone in her landmark account of life at MCI-Framingham. And so it is. After two intense court battles with prison officials, Rathbone gained unprecedented access to the otherwise invisible women of the oldest running women’s prison in America.
The picture... Read more >
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The Friend Who Got Away
Twenty Women's True Life Tales of Friendships that Blew Up, Burned Out or Faded Away
Written by Jenny Offill and Elissa Schappell
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: May 9, 2006
Price: $14.95
Losing a friend can be as painful and as agonizing as a divorce or the end of a love affair, yet it is rarely written about or even discussed. THE FRIEND WHO GOT AWAY is the first book to address this near-universal experience, bringing together the brave, eloquent voices of writers... Read more >
Twenty Women's True Life Tales of Friendships that Blew Up, Burned Out or Faded Away
Written by Jenny Offill and Elissa Schappell
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: May 9, 2006
Price: $14.95
Losing a friend can be as painful and as agonizing as a divorce or the end of a love affair, yet it is rarely written about or even discussed. THE FRIEND WHO GOT AWAY is the first book to address this near-universal experience, bringing together the brave, eloquent voices of writers... Read more >
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Witnessing History
One Chinese Woman's Fight for Freedom
Written by Jennifer Zeng
Format: eBook, 368 pages
On Sale: May 1, 2006
Price: $25.00
Zheng (Jennifer) Zeng was a graduate in science from Beijing University. She was a wife, a mother, and a Communist Party member. But because she followed a spiritual practice called Falun Gong, her life in China was shattered. Adhering to the practice's simple tenets of Truth, Compassion, and Forbearance, she was... Read more >
One Chinese Woman's Fight for Freedom
Written by Jennifer Zeng
Format: eBook, 368 pages
On Sale: May 1, 2006
Price: $25.00
Zheng (Jennifer) Zeng was a graduate in science from Beijing University. She was a wife, a mother, and a Communist Party member. But because she followed a spiritual practice called Falun Gong, her life in China was shattered. Adhering to the practice's simple tenets of Truth, Compassion, and Forbearance, she was... Read more >
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Pees on Earth
Contribution by Annie Sprinkle
Photographed by Ellen Jong
Format: Hardcover, 112 pages
On Sale: April 27, 2006
Price: $29.95
In 1998, Ellen Jong was at a party on Canal Street in New York’s TriBeCa. As the bathroom line was too long, she headed to the street to take a leak. Jong squatted just behind some junked furniture on the curb of the sidewalk, and her pee trickled down like wet... Read more >
Contribution by Annie Sprinkle
Photographed by Ellen Jong
Format: Hardcover, 112 pages
On Sale: April 27, 2006
Price: $29.95
In 1998, Ellen Jong was at a party on Canal Street in New York’s TriBeCa. As the bathroom line was too long, she headed to the street to take a leak. Jong squatted just behind some junked furniture on the curb of the sidewalk, and her pee trickled down like wet... Read more >
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The Shere Hite Reader
New and Selected Writings on Sex, Globalism, and Private Life
Written by Shere Hite
Format: Trade Paperback, 560 pages
On Sale: April 4, 2006
Price: $24.95
The Shere Hite Reader presents wide-ranging analysis on the individual and society from a renowned thinker on psychosexual development. The book includes new science in addition to previously published material, reflecting Hite's three decades of work probing the roots of human identity through questionnaires and theory.
For the first time Hite formalizes... Read more >
New and Selected Writings on Sex, Globalism, and Private Life
Written by Shere Hite
Format: Trade Paperback, 560 pages
On Sale: April 4, 2006
Price: $24.95
The Shere Hite Reader presents wide-ranging analysis on the individual and society from a renowned thinker on psychosexual development. The book includes new science in addition to previously published material, reflecting Hite's three decades of work probing the roots of human identity through questionnaires and theory.
For the first time Hite formalizes... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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My Sister, Guard Your Veil; My Brother, Guard Your Eyes
Uncensored Iranian Voices
Edited by Lila Azam Zanganeh
Format: Trade Paperback, 152 pages
On Sale: April 1, 2006
Price: $16.00
In the first anthology of its kind, Lila Azam Zanganeh argues that although Iran looms large in the American imagination, it is grossly misunderstood-seen either as the third pillar of Bush's infamous "axis of evil" or as a nation teeming with youths clamoring for revolution.
This collection showcases the real scope and... Read more >
Uncensored Iranian Voices
Edited by Lila Azam Zanganeh
Format: Trade Paperback, 152 pages
On Sale: April 1, 2006
Price: $16.00
In the first anthology of its kind, Lila Azam Zanganeh argues that although Iran looms large in the American imagination, it is grossly misunderstood-seen either as the third pillar of Bush's infamous "axis of evil" or as a nation teeming with youths clamoring for revolution.
This collection showcases the real scope and... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
My Sister, Guard Your Veil; My Brother, Guard Your Eyes
Uncensored Iranian Voices
Edited by Lila Azam Zanganeh
Format: eBook
On Sale: April 1, 2006
Price: $10.95
In the first anthology of its kind, Lila Azam Zanganeh argues that although Iran looms large in the American imagination, it is grossly misunderstood-seen either as the third pillar of Bush's infamous "axis of evil" or as a nation teeming with youths clamoring for revolution.
This collection showcases the real scope and... Read more >
Uncensored Iranian Voices
Edited by Lila Azam Zanganeh
Format: eBook
On Sale: April 1, 2006
Price: $10.95
In the first anthology of its kind, Lila Azam Zanganeh argues that although Iran looms large in the American imagination, it is grossly misunderstood-seen either as the third pillar of Bush's infamous "axis of evil" or as a nation teeming with youths clamoring for revolution.
This collection showcases the real scope and... Read more >
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trade paperback.
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Kiss Tomorrow Hello
Notes From the Midlife Underground by Twenty-Five Women Over Forty
Written by Kim Barnes and Claire Davis
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: March 21, 2006
Price: $15.99
“How could ‘old age’ be a medical diagnosis when I wasn’t even forty?”
—Lolly Winston
“… if aging is difficult for those of us who were only sometimes cute,” she says, “just imagine how hard it must be for the aging knockouts, the living dolls.”
—Rebecca McClanahan
“I love sex. I love middle-age sex... Read more >
Notes From the Midlife Underground by Twenty-Five Women Over Forty
Written by Kim Barnes and Claire Davis
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: March 21, 2006
Price: $15.99
“How could ‘old age’ be a medical diagnosis when I wasn’t even forty?”
—Lolly Winston
“… if aging is difficult for those of us who were only sometimes cute,” she says, “just imagine how hard it must be for the aging knockouts, the living dolls.”
—Rebecca McClanahan
“I love sex. I love middle-age sex... Read more >
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The Wall Between Women
Written by Beth Brykman
Format: Trade Paperback, 191 pages
On Sale: March 1, 2006
Price: $19.99
Women today struggle to make difficult choices involving their children and their careers - so why do they simultaneously criticize, undermine, and point fingers at one another? Beth Brykman taps her personal experience as well as her professional marketing skills in crafting this well-researched look at the life-transforming issue that American... Read more >
Written by Beth Brykman
Format: Trade Paperback, 191 pages
On Sale: March 1, 2006
Price: $19.99
Women today struggle to make difficult choices involving their children and their careers - so why do they simultaneously criticize, undermine, and point fingers at one another? Beth Brykman taps her personal experience as well as her professional marketing skills in crafting this well-researched look at the life-transforming issue that American... Read more >
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Spinning Straw into Gold
What Fairy Tales Reveal About the Transformations in a Woman's Life
Written by Joan Gould
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: February 14, 2006
Price: $17.00
What’s your favorite fairy tale? Whether it’s “Cinderella,” “Beauty and the Beast,” “Hansel and Gretel,” or another story, your answer reveals something significant about you, your experiences, and your soul. In this penetrating book, Joan Gould brings to the surface the hidden meanings in fairy tales and myths, and illuminates what... Read more >
What Fairy Tales Reveal About the Transformations in a Woman's Life
Written by Joan Gould
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: February 14, 2006
Price: $17.00
What’s your favorite fairy tale? Whether it’s “Cinderella,” “Beauty and the Beast,” “Hansel and Gretel,” or another story, your answer reveals something significant about you, your experiences, and your soul. In this penetrating book, Joan Gould brings to the surface the hidden meanings in fairy tales and myths, and illuminates what... Read more >
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In Her Place
A Documentary History of Prejudice Against Women
Edited by S. T. Joshi
Format: Hardcover, 458 pages
On Sale: February 6, 2006
Price: $29.99
The long history of prejudice against women has been the focus of many academic studies, but until now there has been no attempt to collect actual examples of this prejudice from books, articles, and scholarly monographs. In Her Place gathers together dozens of works - mostly by American writers over the... Read more >
A Documentary History of Prejudice Against Women
Edited by S. T. Joshi
Format: Hardcover, 458 pages
On Sale: February 6, 2006
Price: $29.99
The long history of prejudice against women has been the focus of many academic studies, but until now there has been no attempt to collect actual examples of this prejudice from books, articles, and scholarly monographs. In Her Place gathers together dozens of works - mostly by American writers over the... Read more >
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Home Fires Burning
Married to the Military-for Better or Worse
Written by Karen Houppert
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: January 31, 2006
Price: $14.95
As taps echoes across the cookie-cutter housing areas of upstate New York’s Fort Drum, the wives turn on the evening news, both hoping for and dreading word of their husbands overseas. It’s a ritual played out on military bases across the nation as the waiting wives of Karen Houppert’s extraordinary new... Read more >
Married to the Military-for Better or Worse
Written by Karen Houppert
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: January 31, 2006
Price: $14.95
As taps echoes across the cookie-cutter housing areas of upstate New York’s Fort Drum, the wives turn on the evening news, both hoping for and dreading word of their husbands overseas. It’s a ritual played out on military bases across the nation as the waiting wives of Karen Houppert’s extraordinary new... Read more >
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This Day in the Life
Diaries from Women Across America
Written by Joni B. Cole, Rebecca Joffrey and B.K. Rakhra
Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
On Sale: December 27, 2005
Price: $14.00
Did You Ever Want to Read a Friend’s Diary?
In suburban neighborhoods and on family farms, in uptown lofts and homeless shelters, women across America chronicled their lives on the same day—June 29, 2004. This Day in the Life shares more than thirty complete diaries and hundreds of additional candid moments.
Full of... Read more >
Diaries from Women Across America
Written by Joni B. Cole, Rebecca Joffrey and B.K. Rakhra
Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
On Sale: December 27, 2005
Price: $14.00
Did You Ever Want to Read a Friend’s Diary?
In suburban neighborhoods and on family farms, in uptown lofts and homeless shelters, women across America chronicled their lives on the same day—June 29, 2004. This Day in the Life shares more than thirty complete diaries and hundreds of additional candid moments.
Full of... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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This Day in the Life
Diaries from Women Across America
Written by Joni B. Cole, Rebecca Joffrey and B.K. Rakhra
Format: eBook, 416 pages
On Sale: December 27, 2005
Price: $11.99
Did You Ever Want to Read a Friend’s Diary?
In suburban neighborhoods and on family farms, in uptown lofts and homeless shelters, women across America chronicled their lives on the same day—June 29, 2004. This Day in the Life shares more than thirty complete diaries and hundreds of additional candid moments.
Full of... Read more >
Diaries from Women Across America
Written by Joni B. Cole, Rebecca Joffrey and B.K. Rakhra
Format: eBook, 416 pages
On Sale: December 27, 2005
Price: $11.99
Did You Ever Want to Read a Friend’s Diary?
In suburban neighborhoods and on family farms, in uptown lofts and homeless shelters, women across America chronicled their lives on the same day—June 29, 2004. This Day in the Life shares more than thirty complete diaries and hundreds of additional candid moments.
Full of... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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The Woman in the Shaman's Body
Reclaiming the Feminine in Religion and Medicine
Written by Barbara Tedlock, Ph.D.
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: December 27, 2005
Price: $17.00
A distinguished anthropologist–who is also an initiated shaman–reveals the long-hidden female roots of the world’s oldest form of religion and medicine. Here is a fascinating expedition into this ancient tradition, from its prehistoric beginnings to the work of women shamans across the globe today.
Shamanism was not only humankind’s first spiritual and... Read more >
Reclaiming the Feminine in Religion and Medicine
Written by Barbara Tedlock, Ph.D.
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: December 27, 2005
Price: $17.00
A distinguished anthropologist–who is also an initiated shaman–reveals the long-hidden female roots of the world’s oldest form of religion and medicine. Here is a fascinating expedition into this ancient tradition, from its prehistoric beginnings to the work of women shamans across the globe today.
Shamanism was not only humankind’s first spiritual and... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
