Wise Women: Over Two Thousand Years of Spiritual Writing by Women - Softcover

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Synopsis

A pathbreaking anthology representing a tradition of the prophetic and practical wisdom of women's spirituality.

Spiritual experience is a liberating source of women's identity and their resistance to oppression. Moving from the Native American tale "The Creation of Spider Woman" and the poet-nun of Mexico Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz to the contemporary African American thinker Marian Wright Edelman and the Buddhist shaman Joan Halifax, these visionaries see justice and love, loss, aging, and freedom. It inspires them to artistic expression and political action. This deeply moving collection of memoirs, stories, poetry, letters, prayers, and theologies is a source of empowering and uplifting thought for women in any time, at any age.

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Susan Cahill lives in New York City.

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ISBN 10:  0393039463 ISBN 13:  9780393039467
Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc, 1996
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