Barbara Walker is een schrijfster wiens werk duikt in het rijke tapijt van vrouwenstudies en mythologie. Haar vroege carrière in de journalistiek vormde de basis voor haar latere verkenning van feministische thema's en vrouwenaangelegenheden, die een centraal aandachtspunt van haar literaire output werden. Walker's onderscheidende stem biedt diepgaande inzichten in historische en culturele verhalen rondom vrouwen.
Barbara Walker Tarot reflects a unique feminist perspective of tarot with religious and pagan symbols from around the world. The Court Cards depict mythological gods and goddesses. The dominant colors of the deck and the card back design are red, black and white because they are "recognized everywhere as the colors of the original feminine Trinity (Triangle) representing her three phases of Virgin, Mother and Crone." Includes 78 pocket-sized cards with keywords in English, and a 48-page booklet.
"Do You Know ... where the legend of a cat's nine lives comes from? Why "mama" is a word understood in nearly all languages? How the custom of kissing began? Whether there really was a female pope? Why Cinderella's glass slipper was so important to the Prince? The answers to these and countless other intriguing questions are given in this compulsively readable, feminist encyclopedia. Twenty-five years in preparation, this unique, comprehensive sourcebook focuses on mythology anthropology, religion, and sexuality to uncover precisely what other encyclopedias leave out or misrepresent. The Woman's Encyclopedia presents the fascinating stories behind word origins, legends, superstitions, and customs. A browser's delight and an indispensable resource, it offers 1,350 entries on magic, witchcraft, fairies, elves, giants, goddesses, gods, and psychological anomalies such as: demonic possession; the mystical meanings of sun, moon, earth, sea, time, and space; ideas of the soul, reincarnation, creation and doomsday; ancient and modern attitudes toward sex, prostitution, romance, rape, warfare, death and sin; and more. Tracing these concepts to their prepatriarchal origins, Barbara G. Walker explores a "thousand hidden pockets of history and custom in addition to the valuable material recovered by archaeologists, orientalists, and other scholars." Not only a compendium of fascinating lore and scholarship, The Woman's Encyclopedia is a revolutionary book that offers a rare opportunity for both women and men to see our cultural heritage in a fresh light, and draw upon the past for a more humane future"--Back cover
A probing account of the honored place of older women in ancient matriarchal societies restores to contemporary women an energizing symbol of self-value, power, and respect.
Ein Quellenbuch, das zeigt, dass Spiritualität durch die Sinne erlebbar ist und Frauen ermutigt, eigene Rituale zu schaffen, um ihre religiöse Verbundenheit individuell auszudrücken.
Antiope - eine schöne, junge, kriegerische Amazone - findet sich nach einer Zeitreise verwirrt und benommen neben einer Autobahn des 20. Jahrhunderts wieder. Sie stammt aus einer mutterrechtlichen Kultur, in der Frauen die führende gesellschaftliche Kraft sind. Antiope trifft die Schriftstellerin Diana, mit der sie sich befreundet und von der sie in die Lebensart der modernen Welt eingeführt wird. Von den Errungenschaften der ihr fremden Zivilisation beeindruckt, stellt sie dennoch unbefangen Fragen, die in aller Schärfe die Absurdität und Gefährlichkeit einer frauenfeindlichen Welt beleuchten. Antiopes Erscheinen bleibt natürlich nicht ohne Folgen.
