Illuminating Voices in Women's Spirituality
Our catalog brings together transformative scholarship, practitioner wisdom, and visionary voices in Women’s Spirituality studies.
Forthcoming from WSSP
New & Noteworthy
Explore the inaugural titles forthcoming from Women’s Spirituality Studies Press. Each work contributes to the growing conversation in Women’s Spirituality studies through scholarship, reflection, and transformative insight.
Goddess Studies/Poetry
The Goddess of Burning Hair
by Mary Mackey
The Goddess of Burning Hair is the first complete collection of Mackey’s goddess poems spanning more than fifty years calling us to embrace ways the Earth our Great Mother speaks through us.
“The poems in this book emerge from Mary Mackey’s lifetime of learning from, studying, listening to, respecting, and giving voice to the spirit of Gaia, the Great Mother, Iemanjá, Aphrodite, and their human attendants, acolytes, devotees. These poems carry eros and ferocity, strength and tenderness, intimacy and largeness. Passionate, informed by lived knowledge and scholarship both, there could be no more perfect volume to inaugurate and welcome into existence a new publishing house devoted to women’s spiritual experience.”
— Jane Hirshfield, editor of Women in Praise of the Sacred: 43 Centuries of Spiritual Poetry by Women
Goddess Studies
Lost Goddesses of Early Greece
by Charlene Spretnak
*Ebook Edition
For thousands of years before the classical myths were recorded by Hesiod and Homer, the Goddess was the focus of religion and culture. In Lost Goddesses of Early Greece, Charlene Spretnak recreates, the original, goddess-centered myths and illuminates the contemporary emergence of a spirituality based on our embeddedness in nature.
“Charlene Spretnak has succeeded extremely well in presenting pure characterizations of the Old European goddesses as they were revered for millennia, long before the Indo-European elements were imposed to create Olympian mythology.”
— Marija Gimbutas, author of The Language of the Goddess
Goddess Studies/Poetry
Little Book of Goddess Prayers
by Annie Finch
Renowned poet Annie Finch’s poems to Goddesses embody the Joy and immanence of the Divine Feminine with exquisite poetic craft and will inspire your heart, mind, body, and spirit.
“Annie Finch’s pure tone calls us home to the first impulse of poetry. We link to mystery. We lift off.”
— Joy Harjo, Poet Laureate of the United States
Goddess Studies
A Serpentine Path
Mysteries of the Goddess
by Carol P. Christ
A Serpentine Path is Carol P. Christ’s moving memoir of her journey from death to rebirth and regeneration, culminating on the first Goddess Pilgrimage to Crete. Thea-logy, reflection on the meaning of Goddess, emerges from and takes root in a woman’s embodied experience, inspiring others to join the dance.
“Like Sappho, the great poet of Aphrodite, (Carol) Christ, agonizing over whether she will ever again experience love, ‘has words with’ her Goddess. The Goddess grants her a healing vision, and Christ ends the book in a new flowering of self-confidence and self-love.”
— Patricia Monaghan, Choice
Feminist Theology/Social Justice
Women Religion Revolution
Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Feminist Voices of Power and Justice
by Xochitl Alvizo and Gina Messina
Women Religion Revolution is a provocative collection of essays written by women who understand that being passive is not an option. Each story resonates with passion drawn from the well of faith, along with a drive to forge a connection with other women.
“This is feminist religious thought at its most courageous and creative. The narratives by these authors offer inspiring, revolutionary, spiritual insights about women’s lives, bodies, and violence.”
— Traci C. West, Ph.D., author of Disruptive Christian Ethics
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