History of Ideas: A Source of Book This is a useful reference for what women and men have said about women from Plato to Betty Friedan. It is something to make your blood boil on a cold night and to help you realize how far women have had to come to be where we are today.
The Second Sex This is one of the books that revived the woman’s movement in the 1960’s. She works her way through biology and psychology and then moves through history and myths to woman’s life cycle.
Woman and Religion: A Feminist Sourcebook of Christian Thought This is a survey of thought about women and religion arranged historically from pre-Biblical times to a final chapter about Mary Daly. A good overview is provided by these twenty chapters.
Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years The daughters of the first African American bishop of the Episcopal Church tell their story of the Episcopal Church, the South, and Harlem through the tumultuous times of their lives.
The Once and Future Goddess: A Symbol for Our Time This is a thought provoking and challenging book about the divine feminine and its importance for healing both human beings and the natural environment.
The Ladies of Seneca Falls: The Birth of the Women's Rights Movement This is a history of the women’s rights movement from the Seneca Falls convention to the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment. There is a special focus on one of the women who share July 20 in the Episcopal Church Calendar, Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
The Ordination of Women - Pro and Con This book provides a benchmark of where thinking was regarding the ordination of women to the priesthood in the years leading up to the General Convention in 1976 where canons were changed to expressly admit women to the priesthood.
Man's World, Woman's Place: A Study in Social Mythology The author brings history, sociology and anthropology to bear on what it meant to be a woman at the start of the renewed woman’s movement of the 20th c. Margaret Mead reviewed it and found it “lucid and fascinating.”
The Woman in American History The author is a renowned scholar of American women’s history. She tells the story of women in the United States from colonial days to the renewed women’s movement of the 20th c.
Teresa of Avila: The Progress of a Soul This is a comprehensive biography of St. Teresa of Avila that focuses more on the outer events of her life than on her writings. It appeals more as the biography than the spirituality of a woman who was a major figure in the church of her day.
