5 Top womens books like Matriarchal Societies: Studies on Indigenous Cultures Across the Globe (Revised) by Heide Göttner-Abendroth

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Matriarchal Societies: Studies on Indigenous Cultures Across the Globe (Revised)

By: Heide Göttner-Abendroth

4.24

Format: 533 pages, Paperback

This book presents the results of Heide Goettner-Abendroth's pioneering research in the field of mo…

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1. Drawing Down the Moon: Witches, Druids, Goddess-Worshippers, and Other Pagans in America

By: Margot Adler

4.00

Format: 646 pages, Paperback

Now fully revised-the classic study of Neo-Paganism Almost thirty years since its original publica… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"The first time I called myself a 'Witch' was the most magical moment of my life."

-Margot Adler, Drawing Down the Moon: Witches, Druids, Goddess-Worshippers, and Other Pagans in America

"When a person assumes that his or her revelation is the only true one, it only says that this person has had very few religious revelations and hasn't realized how many there are."

-Margot Adler, Drawing Down the Moon: Witches, Druids, Goddess-Worshippers, and Other Pagans in America

"I have noticed that many intellectuals turn themselves off the instant they are confronted with the words witchcraft, magic, occultism, and religion, as if such ideas exert a dangerous power that mig…"

-Margot Adler, Drawing Down the Moon: Witches, Druids, Goddess-Worshippers, and Other Pagans in America

"I have noticed that many intellectuals turn themselves off the instant they are confronted with the words witchcraft, magic, occultism, and religion, as if such ideas exert a dangerous power that mig…"

-Margot Adler, Drawing Down the Moon: Witches, Druids, Goddess-Worshippers, and Other Pagans in America

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2. The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions

By: Paula Gunn Allen

4.05

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

This pioneering work, first published in 1986, documents the continuing vitality of American Indian… read more

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  • history
  • feminism
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • womens
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3. The Left Hand of Darkness

By: Ursula K. Le Guin , Lech Jęczmyk

4.10

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

A groundbreaking work of science fiction, The Left Hand of Darkness tells the story of a lone human… read more

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  • feminism
"The king was pregnant."

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness

"Truth is a matter of the imagination."

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness

"The light is the left hand of darkness"

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness

"Science fiction is not prescriptive; it is descriptive."

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness

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4. Sisters in Spirit: Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Influences on Early American Feminists

By: Sally Roesch Wagner , John Fadden

4.29

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) women fired the revolutionary vision of early feminists by providing a mod… read more

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  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • womens
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5. The Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Great Goddess

By: Starhawk

4.32

Format: 285 pages, Paperback

The twentieth anniversary edition of The Spiral Dance celebrates the pivotal role the book has had … read more

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  • nonfiction
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6. Sultana's Dream

By: Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain , Durga Bai

3.72

Format: 78 pages, Hardcover

The female narrator of Sultana's Dreamwanders into a dream city that shuns war and violence. In thi… read more

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  • feminism
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7. Who Cooked the Last Supper?: The Women's History of the World

By: Rosalind Miles

3.68

Format: None pages,

Men dominate history because they write it. Women's vital part in the shaping of the world has been… read more

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  • history
  • feminism
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • womens
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8. Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life

By: Marshall B. Rosenberg , Arun Gandhi

4.34

Format: 220 pages, Paperback

Do you hunger for skills to improve the quality of your relationships, to deepen your sense of pers… read more

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  • relationships
  • nonfiction
"At the root of every tantrum and power struggle are unmet needs."

-Marshall B. Rosenberg, Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life

"All violence is the result of people tricking themselves into believing that their pain derives from other people and that consequently those people deserve to be punished."

-Marshall B. Rosenberg, Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life

"Anger is a result of life-alienating thinking that is disconnected from needs. It indicates that we have moved up to our head to analyze and judge somebody rather than focus on what we are needing an…"

-Marshall B. Rosenberg, Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life

"All criticism, attack, insults, and judgments vanish when we focus attention on hearing the feelings and needs behind a message. The more we practice in this way, the more we realize a simple truth: …"

-Marshall B. Rosenberg, Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life

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9. Mothers and Others: The Evolutionary Origins of Mutual Understanding

By: Sarah Blaffer Hrdy

3.40

Format: 320 pages,

Somewhere in Africa, more than a million years ago, a line of apes began to rear their young differ… read more

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  • science
  • nonfiction
  • anthropology

10. When God Was a Woman

By: Merlin Stone

3.52

Format: 257 pages,

Here, archaeologically documented, is the story of the religion of the Goddess. Known by many names… read more

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11. When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress

By: Gabor Maté

3.91

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

In this accessible and groundbreaking book--filled with the moving stories of real people--medical … read more

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12. The Power

By: Naomi Alderman

2.50

Format: 52 pages, Hardcover

In The Powerthe world is a recognisable place: there's a rich Nigerian kid who larks around the fam… read more

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13. Communion: The Female Search for Love

By: bell hooks

3.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

Renowned visionary and theorist bell hooks began her exploration of the meaning of love in American… read more

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14. Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life

By: Emily Nagoski

4.29

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

An essential exploration of why and how women’s sexuality works—based on groundbreaking research an… read more

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  • relationships
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • womens
  • science
"What turns us on (or off) is learned from culture, in much the same way children learn vocabulary and accents from culture."

-Emily Nagoski, Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life

"You can't make someone be patient any more than you can make someone have an orgasm. You create a great context, and then allow it to happen."

-Emily Nagoski, Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life

"Please tell everyone you know: If you have responsive desire, you are already normal. No one needs to 'crave' sex out of the blue to be a fully healthy person."

-Emily Nagoski, Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life

"One more thing about women's external genitals. The name for the whole package of female genitalia is "vulva." "Vagina" refers to the internal reproductive canal that leads up to the uterus. People o…"

-Emily Nagoski, Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life

15. How Not to Die: Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease

By: Michael Greger , Gene Stone

4.20

Format: 24 pages, Hardcover

From the physician behind the wildly popular website NutritionFacts.org, How Not to Die reveals the… read more

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16. Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find -- and Keep -- Love

By: Amir Levine , None

3.76

Format: 234 pages, Hardcover

Is there a science to love? In this groundbreaking book, psychiatrist and neuroscientist Amir Levi… read more

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17. The Myth of Matriarchal Prehistory: Why an Invented Past Will Not Give Women a Future

By: None

4.05

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

According to the myth of matriarchal prehistory, men and women lived together peacefully before rec… read more

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18. From Eve to Dawn: A History of Women in the World, Vol. 1

By: Marilyn French , Margaret Atwood

4.25

Format: 131 pages, Paperback

Originsis the first of four volumes of a momental, readable, and unprecedented history of women thr… read more

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19. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

By: Philip K. Dick

4.09

Format: 258 pages, Kindle Edition

It was January 2021, and Rick Deckard had a license to kill. Somewhere among the hordes of humans o… read more

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"An android,"

-Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

"Mors certa, vita incerta,"

-Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

"Mankind needs more empathy."

-Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

"Frankly, you look more like a goat man to me."

-Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

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20. Conversations on Love

By: Natasha Lunn

4.25

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A celebration of love in all its forms, featuring conversations with: Philippa Perry on falling in … read more

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  • nonfiction
"And I grew to understand that the grief I felt equalled the love. - Greg Wise"

-Natasha Lunn, Conversations on Love

"The things I flew past in the race to get what I didn't have were actually the gifts all along."

-Natasha Lunn, Conversations on Love

"I'm here for the good and the bad and everything in between". True friends see through any level of performance or denial or avoidance."

-Natasha Lunn, Conversations on Love

"It's important when you've good news to tell the right people. People who understand the dream or have a dream of their own. Otherwise, you end up feeling deflated."

-Natasha Lunn, Conversations on Love

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21. What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma

By: Stephanie Foo

4.52

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A searing memoir of reckoning and healing by acclaimed journalist Stephanie Foo, investigating the… read more

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22. Bitch: On the Female of the Species

By: Lucy Cooke

4.45

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A fierce, funny, and revolutionary look at the queens of the animal kingdom. Studying zoology m… read more

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  • feminism
  • gender
  • nonfiction
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23. Matriarchal Societies: Studies on Indigenous Cultures Across the Globe (Revised)

By: Heide Göttner-Abendroth

4.24

Format: 533 pages, Paperback

This book presents the results of Heide Goettner-Abendroth's pioneering research in the field of mo… read more

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