List of Useful Books

Books on matrifocal culture and the return of the Goddess:

• The Fifth Sacred Thing, by Starhawk; Bantam Books, 1994 (fiction).
  This novel by one of the most important witches of this time is about a future Pagan society in what is now California, and how they react to the invasion of people from a patriarchal warrior society.
• The Once and Future Goddess, by Elinor W. Gadon; Harper Collins, 1989.
  This is a book about the art of the Goddess -- Goddess images in art through history. Besides being visually beautiful, it also has a wealth of information about Goddess traditions.
• Priestesses, by Norma Lorre Goodrich; Harper Perennial, 1989.
  A historical survey of the role of women -- priestesses -- in religion through the ages.
• When God Was a Woman, by Merlin Stone; Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1976.
  This anthropological study by Ms. Stone talks about how early Goddess worship was replaced by patriarchy’s Gods It has the best explanation of the Eden myth I’ve ever seen.