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A Spiritual Life: A Jewish Feminist Journey (S U N Y Series in Modern Jewish Literature and Culture) 13 reviews
Merle Feld
State University of New York Press, 1999
Reflections on hidden memories
"A Spiritual Life" gave me permission to digest my past. At the end of each vignette I was surprised to find myself face to face with "me"-my own experiences of decades ago. I suddenly slowed down and felt deep parts of my life that I had been too frightened to listen to long ago. I keep it on my night table and read it again and again reflecting on my own memories. Reading "A Spiritual ...
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Grace: A Memoir14 reviews
Mary Cartledgehayes
Crown, 2003
Yes! This is what it's like!
I was't sure I wanted to read one more spiritual journey book. But the first paragraph hooked me and I laughed and cried my way through "Grace." The stories of her childhood, with the Episcopal priest in a long black dress with a white lace overdress, who came once a month with the "smells and bells" that transformed the schoolroom into a holy space, were delightful. The isolated life on the ...
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In Search of Our Mothers' Garden15 reviews
Alice Walker
Turtleback Books Distributed by Demco Media, 2000
The Loss of Black Creativity Due To Slavery
In her essay concerning post-Reconstruction African-American women, Alice Walker seeks to put a human face on what Americans may otherwise only remember as an unfortunate scar on our glorious history. She asks, "Who were the Saints? These crazy, loony, pitiful women?" And in answering herself, she replies in repetition, "our mothers and grandmothers." These are the human faces to which she has ...
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A Piece of My Heart: The Stories of 26 American Women Who Served in Vietnam16 reviews
Keith Walker
Presidio Pr, 1986
There's a special place in Heaven...
... for all of the women who served in Vietnam. Read this book, plus the late Lynda Van Devanter's Home Before Morning and you'll see why. While Lynda's book is a hauntingly graphic record of the triumphs and tragedies that the ANC nurses and Army surgeons experienced in Nam, A Piece Of My Heart gives the reader a very broad perspective of the contributions of women in many other areas. The ...
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You Forgot Your Skirt, Amelia Bloomer13 reviews
Shana Corey
Scholastic Press, 2000
Great book for young girls
It's odd that of all of Amelia Bloomer's accomplishments, from being a suffragette to an editor of a women's newspaper, her greatest attribution is the bloomer. But the tone of the book is very appropriate: being a proper lady is silly. And sometimes, you have to be a rebel to cause change.
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Fire and Fog (Fremont Jones Mysteries)16 reviews
Dianne Day
Crimeline, 1997
Wow!! Couldn't Put It Down!!
This book was so intriguing and exciting that I read it all in one sitting! Ms Day make the earthquake and its after-effects fascinating and engrossing. Without Michael and with Mrs. O'Leary missing in action, Fremont sets out to help others while with searching for her MIA landlady. It's realistic and captivating. Her descriptions of San Francisco and the Presidio are right on the money. ...
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Eating in the Light of the Moon: How Women Can Transform Their Relationship with Food Through Myths, ...41 reviews
Anita A. Johnston PhD.
Gurze Books, 2000
the best
The best book written on this subject. The author uses a different approach than other books I have read and the fables make the book a more interesting read. Very much recommended.
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Cinder Edna22 reviews
Ellen Jackson
HarperTrophy, 1998
Attitude, it's all attitude!
This is the story of two neighbors, both overworked sisters to mean, wicked, old step-sisters. Cinderella is the pretty one who sits in the cinders and daydreams after she finishes her chores. Next door Cinder Edna, the spunky one but not so pretty, sings while she works. She doesn't like sitting in cinders--gets her clothes sooty--so she takes on extra chores from the neighbors who pay her, ...
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The Dolphin Smiles14 reviews
David Salvage
The Dragon Press, 2006
Dense, Poetic Novel
"Dense, poetic, a novel that made me reconsider both the potentials and limitations of psychoanalysis. It felt like the trauma was stripped bare, and I was left with both excitement and despair about the potentials of how life might be different. An unsettling book that raised more questions than it answered, a perturbing danger percolates within the shimmering sheen of verbal hynposis."
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Dance Lest We All Fall Down19 reviews
Cold Tree Press, 2007
Don't Stop the Dance
One cannot help but be moved by this story. A remarkably easy read of a difficult subject, it can be appreciated on many levels. There is the fascinating insight into capoeira; the exploration of race and the part it plays in Brazil as well as the US; the insights into making a project work within another culture through inclusion and respect; the ideas for teaching children who have not ...
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The Shadow King: The Invisible Force That Holds Women Back12 reviews
Sidra Stone
Backinprint.com, 2000
This book is revolutionary for women and for men too!
Sidra Stone shows us that the feminist revolution has to be an inside job. It doesn't matter how much we try to change the world outside of us - if we're still carrying the expectations of the patriarchy within our own psyches, it's not too likely that we'll be able to change. Dr. Stone not only shows how the Inner Patriarch functions within women, she gives clear and creative ideas about how ...
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The Torah: A Women's Commentary12 reviews
Edited by Dr. Tamara Cohn Eskenazi and Rabbi Andrea Weiss
URJ Press, 2007
The Best of Women's Torah Scholarship
The Torah: A Women's Commentary is a compilation of the most recent Torah scholarship that also includes a woman's perspective. Introductory essays by Carol Meyers, Judith R. Baskin and Ellen Umansky are outstanding in orienting the reader to the world of Torah history and post biblical analysis. Alterative perspectives enrich this multi-dimential effort. This volume produced by the Women of ...
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Pioneer Women11 reviews
Joanna Stratton
Touchstone, 1982
Frontier Kansas
I read somewhere that a statistically large number of prominent Americans were born in 19th century Kansas. That was perhaps a result of the hard, but ultimately rewarding pioneer life that is described in these pages. Kansas and the West a century ago were in the vanguard of social innovation and progressive politics in the U.S.
Author Stratton re-discovered the oral histories of 800 ...
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Breaking Point:: Why Women Fall Apart and How They Can Re-create Their Lives12 reviews
Martha Beck
Crown, 1997
The book I wish I had 20 years ago
I came up against conflicts and obstacles in my life as a 20-something woman--smart, good-looking, well educated, successful. I had no idea what kept hitting me. There were the reasons everybody cites, but there was something deeper that was insoluble, it seemed to me. I couldn't figure out why I was the only woman I knew who was stopped in her tracks, overwhelmed by the horror of people's ...
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Daddy Was a Number Runner10 reviews
Louise Meriwether
The Feminist Press at CUNY, 1986
Some Ole' School Truths
Daddy Was A Number Runner provides a horrific historical and sociological picture of Harlem during the 1930's post-Renaissance era. The reader travels throughout the daily trials and tribulations of Francie Coffin, an adolescent girl living with her brothers, mother and father, who is a number runner. Statistically we know of the crime, deviance, poverty, fatherless homes and emerging welfare ...
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Circles in the Sand10 reviews
E. J. 'Samadhi' Whitehouse
Trafford Publishing, 2005
A Woman's Journey Through the Middle East to Find Herself
Women everywhere will applaud the writings found within Whitehouse's Circles in the Sand. There is a little bit of every woman's story in her story. There are some parts of her story that some women will never experience. But the one universal truth in Whitehouse's story is that women who take necessary risks to search their souls and define themselves reach a point of being keenly aware of who ...
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Hidden From History: 300 Years of Women's Oppression and the Fight Against It (Pluto Classics)12 reviews
Jack London, Sheila Rowbotham
PLUTO PRESS, 1992
One of the best books ever written about revolution
In spite of its length, I've read this book several times. It isn't just a widely acclaimed historic and literary masterpiece, written by a leading participant in the events he describes. It isn't just vividly written and thoroughly researched.
More importantly, it's one of the best books ever written about revolution, as relevant today as ever.
The most important conclusion that emerges ...
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Her Blood Is Gold: Celebrating the Power of Menstruation11 reviews
Lara Owen
Harpercollins, 1993
Every woman should read it!
A nightmare experience at the hands of a brutal doctor who was giving her an internal exam sent Lara Owen off on this fascinating exploration into the rich underworld of the female body. It's a well-written, passionate and thoughtful plea for a return to body-consciousness and acceptance of what it is to be female. The case studies are inspiring, the ideas for self-healing and developing the ...
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Why So Slow? The Advancement of Women12 reviews
Virginia Valian
The MIT Press, 1999
Finally, some data
If you're interested in the empirical findings which back-up many often dismissed feminist claims that women have a raw deal...then read this book.
Easy to read with some engrossing anecdotes (included only to illustrate, not prove, her points as pointed out by Valian herself), this book is a convincing tour guide of women's achievement in male-dominated professions.
My advisor in graduate ...
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Tatterhood and Other Tales12 reviews
The Feminist Press at CUNY, 1993
Wonderful collection of heroic women
This is one of the best collections of fairy tales featuring strong and enterprising hereoines. It includes stories from may different cultures, but all feature clever, resourceful women who overcome adversity. some of the stories were already familiar to me, but many I'd never read before. If you thought all fairy tale heroines were ninnies like Cinderella and snow White, you need to read ...
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