When God Was a Woman

It's definitely written in a way that is accessible to pretty much anyone, and should be part of your education in that it remains a perspective that people hold on to. But most academics - feminist archaeologists, Classicists and historians included - agree that the majority of the evidence cited d......more

Stone discusses the history behind the religion(s) of the Goddess. Various religions in the past held that "God" was a female deity, as only females are the creators of life. There is anthropological and archaeological evidence which suggest that the earliest religions were those with a female deity......more

I was raised with the ideas that are counter cultural and this was one of the basic texts that my mother quoted often. None of this seems controversial or weird to me though I have come to learn that it does to most people. I thought it was common knowledge that women were seen as positive, smart and......more

Women of the world, read this book. This is your legacy, your power, your truth. It explains what men with the help of church and organized religion have taken from us, and have suppressed and persecuted for thousands of years (this book was published in 1976, the year I was born, but it was an eye......more

Well...the writing style, the sloppy arguments, and the messy research kind of made me want to pull my hair out while I was reading this. Stone absolutely made an important point that archaeologists and anthropologists should not make the assumption that everything is, was, and always will be male-c......more