This book celebrates the contribution of women to Buddhism, from Buddha's mother, Mahamaya, to contemporary Buddhist women.
"Spiritually uplifting and down-to-earth practical, this book is for those from every spiritual tradition who realize that if you want peace, you must build community." from book cover
Reflections from Thoreau's journals with illustrations and commentary on native plants for the garden.
"A brilliant and masterful synthesis of scholarship on the history of slavery in America" August Meier on book jacket
A collection of writings of the famous American Black scientist (1864-1943) that shows his career and the background against which his story unfolds.
The first volume of the Forsyte Saga, and among the most popular fiction works of the 20th century.
Poet and consultant David Whyte brings a poet's deepening imagination to the world of business and work, urging readers to bring their full selves to the workplace.
In Ecocivilization, visionary thinker Jeremy Lent reimagines the basis of our civilization and argues for a new global system of living, one based on life-affirming principles modeled after nature's own design. From the global economy to universal housing and income, from infrastructure to agriculture, every major aspect of our society could be redesigned to work together as a coherent whole, setting the conditions for all people to flourish. Ecocivilization shows how this future on a regenerated Earth is not only feasible, but entirely feasible." from book jacket
This essay explores some ways to deepen our meetings' vocal ministry and foster the gathered meeting through a vital culture of eldership-- that is, the faith and practices, the attitudes and agreements through which we nurture the spiritual lives of our members. Since sidelining or laying down the practice of recording ministers and elders in many unprogrammed meetings, Friends have largely abandoned the proactive nurture of spoke ministry and the understanding of vocal ministry as an ongoing calling. The author offers practical ways for meetings to nurture those with a gift for spoken ministry.
"Part spiritual memoir, part guidebook for navigating grief and loss, part call to the work of healing our world, Strands is like nothing else you've ever read. Beginning with a spiritual leading to understand her own history, Wild weaves the many threads of loss that have shaped her life as a storyteller, Quaker leader, spiritual teacher, and activist"- from Amazon
Author debunks some myths concerning women's role in the evolution of the species.
Anthology of essays and statements about women in society published in 1969, edited by two prominent sociologists.
Offers advice to women on how to be happy and productive in the second half of their lives, discussing activities and sexuality, housing and travel, self-advocacy, dealing with depression and loss, building relationships, and other topics.
The third and final book in hooks's trilogy on love, "Communion challenges every female to courageously claim the search for love as the heroic journey we must all choose to be truly free." from book jacket
The publication of Germaine Greer's The Female Eunuch in 1970 was a landmark event, raising eyebrows and ire while creating a shock wave of recognition in women around the world with its steadfast assertion that sexual liberation is the key to women's liberation. Today, Greer's searing examination of the oppression of women in contemporary society is both an important historical record of where we've been and a shockingly relevant treatise on what still remains to be achieved.
" . .. The author reminds us that the Buddha was not a mystic who claimed privileged, esoteric knowledge of the universe, but a man who challenged us to understand the nature of anguish, let go of its origins, and bring into being a way of life that is available to us all. What the Buddha taught, says Batchelor, is not something to believe in but something to do -- and . . . it is a practice that we can engage in, regardless of our backgrounds or beliefs, as we live every day on the path to awakening." from book cover
An introduction to the writings of Meister Eckhart.
The three essays composing this volume "are among the author's best work. In toto they offer a definition of Quakerism which is at once objective yet peculiarly Howard Brinton's own. This definition stresses the fusion of individual experience with community which has characterized the Society of Friends since its beginnings, and which aligns it with modern trends in existential thought and group psychology.'' from the book jacket.
This is a translation of The Sutra on Knowing the Better Way to Live Alone, the earliest teaching of the Buddha on living fully in the present moment.
In this small book, Thich Nhat Hanh offers insight into the nature of real love. He explores the four key aspects of love as described in the Buddhist tradition: lovingkindness, compassion, joy, and freedom.
A collection of essays relating the spiritual dimensions to women's experiences in the world.
A candid exploration of the mother-daughter relationship probes the private emotions, pains, joys, and secrets and charts the stages of a woman's life.
Landmark, groundbreaking, classic—these adjectives barely do justice to the pioneering vision and lasting impact of The Feminine Mystique. Published in 1963, it gave a pitch-perfect description of "the problem that has no name": the insidious beliefs and institutions that undermined women's confidence in their intellectual capabilities and kept them in the home. Writing in a time when the average woman first married in her teens and 60 percent of women students dropped out of college to marry, Betty Friedan captured the frustrations and thwarted ambitions of a generation and showed women how they could reclaim their lives. Part social chronicle, part manifesto, The Feminine Mystique is filled with fascinating anecdotes and interviews as well as insights that continue to inspire.
"Working from the first-hand testimony of letters, journals, memoirs, and other contemporary accounts, the author weaves her own delicate yet keen measure of the wisdom of the day -- that woman was morally, spiritually, and intellectually 'the weaker vessel' -- with the startling actuality: women of every class, circumstance, and sensibility often defying the narrowness of society's expectations of them in the most unexpected ways." - from book jacket
Originally published in 1970, when Shulamith Firestone was just twenty-five years old, and going on to become a bestseller, The Dialectic of Sex was the first book of the women's liberation movement to put forth a feminist theory of politics.
Beginning with a look at the radical and grassroots history of the first wave (with its foundation in the abolition movement of the time), Firestone documents its major victory, the granting of the vote to women in 1920, and the fifty years of ridicule that followed. She goes on to deftly synthesize the work of Freud, Marx, de Beauvoir, and Engels to create a cogent argument for feminist revolution. Identifying women as a caste, she declares that they must seize the means of reproduction—for as long as women (and only women) are required to bear and rear children, they will be singled out as inferior. Ultimately she presents feminism as the key radical ideology, the missing link between Marx and Freud, uniting their visions of the political and the personal.
Beginning with a look at the radical and grassroots history of the first wave (with its foundation in the abolition movement of the time), Firestone documents its major victory, the granting of the vote to women in 1920, and the fifty years of ridicule that followed. She goes on to deftly synthesize the work of Freud, Marx, de Beauvoir, and Engels to create a cogent argument for feminist revolution. Identifying women as a caste, she declares that they must seize the means of reproduction—for as long as women (and only women) are required to bear and rear children, they will be singled out as inferior. Ultimately she presents feminism as the key radical ideology, the missing link between Marx and Freud, uniting their visions of the political and the personal.
As title suggests, a large collection of writings on feminism throughout history.
his work is an exploration of the ongoing significance of sisterly relationships throughout life, bringing together personal narrative with the illuminations provided by myth, fairy-tale, and the deep psychological reflections of Freud, Jung, and their followers. The book suggests that an imaginal return to the relationship with the actual sister of early years is only the beginning; it leads forward to an understanding of how that relationship reappears, transformed, in many friendships and love affairs, and to a challenging revision of the innermost self, and even toward a new way of imagining a woman's relation to the natural world. The book in no way sentimentalizes sisterhood. In her retelling of the familiar story about Psyche and Eros Downing focuses on Psyche's relation to her envious sisters who, she suggests, push Psyche in a way her soul requires. Reflection on this aspect of the story initiates women into an appreciation of how sisterly relationships challenge and nurture, even as they sometimes disappoint and betray one another.
"Simone de Beauvoir has explored every aspect of femininity-- sexual, social, biological, even historical. The Second Sex is a total picture of what she has learned, observed, and thought." from book jacket. "The healthiest, headiest, wealthiest and wisest book that has ever been written about women." - The New York Herald Tribune from book jacket.
A powerful study of the women's liberation movement in the U.S., from abolitionist days to the present, that demonstrates how it has always been hampered by the racist and classist biases of its leaders. From the widely revered and legendary political activist and scholar Angela Davis.--Publisher website.