Category: Books & Publications

ASWM’s own books and publications, as well as books and publications of interest to the membership

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Matriarchal Studies – Matriarchatsforschung New Bilingual Website

The Academy HAGIA is pleased to announce its newly created, bilingual website, Matriarchal Studies—Matriarchatsforschung (AHMSM), a unique bibliography of Modern Matriarchal Studies.

The Academy HAGIA has been planning the launch of AHMSM for quite some time, and now it is available on internet, in German at: www.matriarchatsforschung.comand in English at: www.matriarchalstudies.com

The Bibliography exhaustively lists all known studies of and commentaries on the subject of matriarchies, from ancient times up to the modern day. Each title mentioned includes a short caption, so that the origin and development of the field of matriarchy can be traced through to the establishment of modern matriarchal studies.

In the first part of AHMSM offers anthropological publications describing matriarchal societies and societies with matriarchal elements worldwide, in Africa, the Americas, Asia, Australia. The second part of the bibliography is dedicated to the history of matriarchal cultures through archaeological publications and the history of cultures, which have contributed to the knowledge about matriarchal societies in history in West Asia and Europe.

 The Oxford University Press (U.S.) first published this comprehensive, English-language bibliography in 2015, with an update published in 2019, the same year that it was translated into German, making this excellent intellectual tool for research on matriarchal societies now accessible in both English and German.

Licensed by Oxford University Press, AHMSM is available, free of charge, as a gift to scholars and people interested in Modern Matriarchal Studies.

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ASWM Proceedings Receive Best Books Awards

Myths Shattered and Restored and Vibrant Visions: Women, Myth and the Arts included in

100 of the Best Books in Women’s Spirituality!

The Board of the Association for the Study of Women and Mythology is thrilled to announce that two of ASWM’s publications, Myths Shattered and Restored, and Vibrant Visions: Women, Myth, and the Arts (Proceedings of the Association for the Study of Women and Mythology, volumes 1 & 2) were honored by being included in the recent 100 of the Best Books in Women’s Spirituality awarded by the Women’s Spirituality Department of the California Institute of Integral Studies.

The 100 of the Best Books in Women’s Spirituality were announced at the Women’s Spirituality Department’s conference Women Rising: New Visions for a Post-Patriarchal World which took place at the CIIS campus in San Francisco October 12-14, 2018.  The conference was held in celebration of the 25th anniversary of the Women’s Spirituality Department at CIIS.

As the Department noted on their web site:

These acclaimed authors include a broad diversity of scholars and artists who are contributing to the emerging field of Women’s Spirituality in academia. . . . Our faculty and students are especially grateful to the many Women’s Spirituality authors and artists who inspire and nourish the work we do in higher education to support women’s spiritual freedoms, cultural agency, and eco-social justice around the world.

If you wish to purchase one or both of the ASWM volumes, you can do so through Amazon, or the Goddess Ink website.

Many of ASWM’s members also have their individual books honored by inclusion in this list.  Our hearty congratulations go out to them all!

You can view the complete list of Best Books at:  http://womenrisingconference.org/index.php/wse-book-awards/

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These Books Available at Las Vegas Conference

On Saturday afternoon we will have a Marketplace with book signings available from 4 to 8 pm.  Many of our presenters will have books on hand to inspire you–such as:

 

Sherri L. Mitchell is the author of Sacred Instructions; Indigenous Wisdom for Living Spirit-Based Change.  She was born and raised on the Penobscot Indian Reservation, at Indian Island in Maine. A civil rights attorney, educator and advocate for women and children, Sherri is the Executive Director of the Land Peace Foundation, which provides assistance to Indigenous populations and groups. Sherri is also a published poet, scholar and philosopher.

Beverly Little Thunder is a Two-Spirit mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, and lifelong activist. Beverly is also a published author of the memoir, One Bead at a Time and a chapter in Two Spirit People (1995).

Annie Finch is an award-winning poet, writer, speaker, performer, and witch. Her eighteen books include Eve, Calendars, A Poet’s Craft, Spells, and Among the Goddesses: An Epic Libretto in Seven Dreams, which received ASWM’s 2010 Sarasvati Award.

 

Named a “Wisdom Keeper of the Goddess Spirituality Movement” in 2013, Nancy Vedder-Shults, Ph.D, is the author of The World is Your Oracle: Divinatory Practices for Tapping Your Inner Wisdom (Fair Winds Press: 2017).

Malgorzata Oleszkiewicz-Peralba’s cross-cultural, women-centered interests are reflected in her two recent books, The Black Madonna in Latin America and Europe: Tradition and Transformation (UNMP) and Fierce Feminine Divinities of Eurasia and Latin America: Baba Yaga, Kali, Pombagira, and Santa Muerte  (Palgrave).

       

And of course ASWM’s own Vibrant Voices:  Women, Myth and the Arts and Myths Shattered and Restored.

 

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What’s the Buzz about “Vibrant Voices”?

Vibrant Voices: Women, Myth, and the Arts

Volume II of Proceedings of the Association for the Study of Women and Mythology, edited by Sid Reger and Marna Hauk

“Vibrant Voices is an essential guide and touchstone for all future work on women and mythology.”
–Miranda Shaw, author of Passionate Enlightenment

 

We proudly launch this beautiful proceedings volume on March 17, 2018 at our ASWM Conference.  At least 15 of our contributors will be on hand, and book signings will be happening at the Marketplace from4 to 8pm. There is a special introductory price for those attending the conference.

With over 30 contributors, this full-color book explores the many facets of women’s arts as they illuminate sacred stories from many traditions. In her Foreword, Judy Grahn says,

These essays add to our sensual experiences as well as to our ever-expanding knowledge base. The invitational qualities and broad diversity of origin and expression of the selections in this volume are balanced by histories of the colonization that the foremothers and preservers of indigenous religions and community have had to endure.

 Our goals in creating this book were to honor artist-scholars’ work and to inspire further explorations of women and the arts. We include visual arts, poetry, and scholarship from over 30 contributors who have presented at ASWM events. In her Afterword, Cristina Biaggi speaks to this intention:

This amazing small gem of an anthology – full of wisdom and new ways of seeing and inspiration – is a welcome addition to our growing Goddess library that serves to nourish and inspire us and beckons us toward a new world filled with hope and light.

Here what other goddess scholars are saying about Vibrant Voices:

 

“A stunning testimony to the importance of the path-breaking, boundary-crossing work of the Association for the Study of Women and Mythology.”

–Carol P. Christ, author of Goddess and God in the World and A Serpentine Path  

 

“So many forces in our hypermodern culture have denied the ancient triad of women, art, and the sacred that we can barely grasp all that has been lost to us. Vibrant Voices makes an insightful and deeply beautiful contribution to the recovery, as well as inspiration for creative new directions.”

— Charlene Spretnak, author of The Spiritual Dynamic in Modern Art, 1800 to the Present

 

 “This stunning volume reveals and celebrates the female divine through artistry, poesy, and superb scholarship.  The thorough integration of historical, experiential, and visionary voices is a pivotal achievement. Vibrant Voices is an essential guide and touchstone for all future work on women and mythology.”

~Miranda Shaw, author of Passionate Enlightenment: Women in Tantric Buddhism and Buddhist Goddesses of India

 

“This collection of wisdom of women’s spirituality scholarship is indispensable for understanding the possibilities today in the midst of converging environmental, political, gender, and spiritual crises – – and to birthing a new civilization where nobody is  ‘othered;’  everybody creates a society of love and justice.”  

-Lucia Chiavola Birnbaum, author of Dark Mother: African Origins and Godmothers

Vibrant Voices will be for sale for a special introductory price at our conference in Las Vegas. It will also be available at Goddess Ink and on Amazon.

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“Vibrant Voices” Anthology Released

Announcing the release:  Vibrant Voices: Women, Myth, and the Arts

Volume II, Proceedings of the Association for the Study of Women and Mythology

With over 30 contributors, this full-color book explores the many facets of women’s arts as they illuminate sacred stories from many traditions. In her Foreword, Judy Grahn says,

These essays add to our sensual experiences as well as to our ever-expanding knowledge base. The invitational qualities and broad diversity of origin and expression of the selections in this volume are balanced by histories of the colonization that the foremothers and preservers of indigenous religions and community have had to endure.

Purchase Vibrant Voices at  Amazon