The Politics of Women's Spirituality

Essays on the Rise of Spiritual Power within the Feminist Movement

Edited by Charlene Spretnak

Politics of Women's Spirituality
"The new vision of reality that is now emerging in science and is being shaped by various social movements is ecological, feminist, and spiritual. Charlene Spretnak's important anthology explores, for the first time, the relationship and political implica tions of these major currents in our culture. "
- Fritjof Capra, author of The Tao of Physics
and The Turning Point
"An indispensable anthology for the increasing numbers of scholars of both sexes who understand that the literature of women's spirituality and eco-feminism holds the key to a more fundamental analysis of today's crises of patriarchal, technocratic industrialism. "
- Hazel Henderson, author of
The Politics of the Solar Age
"Spretnak has done an artful job of collecting in a single volume the best of writing at the cusp of feminism and spirituality - a zone of excitement, ferment, and challenge. "
-Daniel Goleman, president of the Association for Transpersonal Psychology
and senior editor of Psychology Today
"Charlene Spretnak has gathered feminist thinkers who have evolved a spirituality that is informed by their politics and that informs their progress toward social change. Such feminist writing provides important alternative visions of spirit and power."
- Valerie Miner, Los Angeles Times
"The issues raised by holistic, postpatriarchal, nature-honoring spirituality are insightfully explored in The Politics of Women's Spirituality."
- Antoinette May, New Realities
"For news of an important merger [between the transformational and feminist movements], check out The Politics of Women's Spirituality."
- Sandy MacDonald, New Age, special feature on the Best Transformational Books of 1982

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Anchor Press / Doubleday and Company, originally published in 1982