Women In Mythology, Religion And History
The Amazons by Guy Cadogan Rothery
Never, perhaps, has the alchemy of Greek genius been more potent than in the matter of the Amazonian myth. It has bestowed a charm on the whole amazing story which has been most prolific in its results
Diana greatly loved her brother Lucifer, the god of the Sun and of the Moon, the god of Light, who was so proud of his beauty, and who for his pride was driven from Paradise. Diana had by, her brother a daughter, to whom they gave the name of Aradia. In those days there were on earth many rich and many poor.
It's all there in the bible: the MALE God created MAN in HIS image, demonstrating the high regard He held for the MALE. Eve, on the other hand, was created as an after-thought, a mere plaything for Adam. (This is a joke, please don't send me angry e-mails)
Sappho: One Hundred Lyrics by Bliss Carman
If all the poets and all the lovers of poetry should be asked to name the most precious of the priceless things which time has wrung in tribute from the triumphs of human genius, the answer which would rush to every tongue would be "The Lost Poems of Sappho." Contains artistic nudity
Our Androcentric Culture or The Man-Made World By Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Let us begin, inoffensively, with sheep. The sheep is a beast with which we are all familiar, being much used in religious imagery; the common stock of painters; a staple article of diet; one of our main sources of clothing; and an everyday symbol of bashfulness and stupidity.
Seperation Of Female and Male Elements In The Deity by Eliza Burt Gamble
Glimpses of antiquity as far back as human ken can reach reveal the fact that in early ages of human society the physiological question of sex was a theme of the utmost importance.
The London-Bawd: With Her Character and Life Discovering the Various and Subtle Intrigues of Lewd Women. Anonymous
Is the Refuse of an Old Whore, who having been burnt herself, does like Charcoal help to set greener Wood on Fire; She is one of Natures Errata's, and a true Daughter of Eve, who having first undone herself, tempts others to the same Destruction.
The Songs of Bilitis by Pierre Louÿs
This little book of ancient love is respectfully dedicated to the young ladies of the society of the future. A classic fraud
The Syrian Goddess. A Translation Of Lucian's "De Dea Syria"
Of the many writers who refer to the Dea Syria, no one , no one dwells upon the fundamental character of the cult at Hierapolis, nor deals with the problem of its historical origins.
The Subjection of Women By John Stuart Mill
That the principle which regulates the existing social relations between the two sexes--the legal subordination of one sex to the other--is wrong itself, and now one of the chief hindrances to human improvement; and that it ought to be replaced by a principle of perfect equality, admitting no power or privilege on the one side, nor disability on the other.
The Martyrdom of Hypatia By Mangasar Mangasarian
Our subject this morning takes us to the city of Alexandria, one of the greatest intellectual centers in the days when Athens and Rome still ruled the world.
Lives of the Greek Heroines, by Louisa Menzies
To give a true picture of these women and of their lives and occupations is all that the writer of the following pages has aimed at. To have entered on the field of comparative mythology, however inviting it may look, would have been foreign to the purpose with which the work was undertaken.
Religious Cults Associated With the Amazons By Florence Mary Bennett
The Iliad contains two direct references to the Amazons:--namely, in the story of Bellerophon1 and in a passage from the famous teichoscopy. The context to which the first of these belongs is classed by critics as an "echo" from the pre-Homeric saga.
Are Women People? by Alice Duer Miller
A by-law of the New York Board of Education says: No married woman shall be appointed to any teaching or supervising position in the New York public schools unless her husband is mentally or physically incapacitated to earn a living or has deserted her for a period of not less than one year.
Witch-Cult in Western Europe by Margaret Alice Murray
"The subject of Witches and Witchcraft has always suffered from the biassed opinions of the commentators, both contemporary and of later date. On the one hand are the writers who, having heard the evidence at first hand, believe implicitly in the facts and place upon them the unwarranted construction that those facts were due to supernatural power; on the other hand are the writers who, taking the evidence on hearsay and disbelieving the conclusions drawn by their opponents, deny the facts in toto."
Important Note: nothing described in this book should be taken as representative of contemporary Neopagan practice.
The First Blast Of The Trumpet Against The Monstrous Regiment Of Women By John Knox
The wonderful silence of the godly and zealous preachers, the learned men and of grave judgment, now in exile, that they do not admonish the inhabitants of "greate Brittanny" how abominable before GOD is the Empire or Rule of Wicked Woman, yea, of a traitress and bastard.
Tales of Mother Goose, by Charles Perrault
What virtues do these stories possess that have kept them alive for so long a time? They have to some degree stimulated and nourished qualities of supreme worth in individual and social life.
Shaken Creeds: The Virgin Birth Doctrine By Jocelyn Rhys
At a tme of great convulsions, more than at any other time, men and women are driven to examine their most cherished convictions, and to inquire whether the misfortunes which mankind suffers are not due to men's own erroneous beliefs and false aims.
The Witchcraft Delusion In Connecticut (1647-1697), by John M. Taylor
"May it please yr Honble Court, we the Grand inquest now setting for the County of Fairefeild, being made sensable, not only by Common fame (but by testamonies duly billed to us) that the widow Mary Staple, Mary Harvey ye wife of Josiah Harvey and Hannah Harvey the daughter of the saide Josiah, all of Fairefeild, remain under the susspition of useing witchecraft, which is abomanable both in ye sight of God and man and ought to be witnessed against."
Sidonia The Sorceress By William Mienhold
This terrible example caused such a panic of horror, that contemporary authors scarcely dare to mention her name, and, even then, merely by giving the initials. This forbearance arose partly from respect towards the ancient family of the Von Borks, who then, as now, were amongst the most illustrious and wealthy in the land.
The Amber Witch By Wilhelm Meinhold.
"In laying before the public this deeply affecting and romantic trial, which I have not without reason called on the title-page the most interesting of all trials for witchcraft ever known, I will first give some account of the history of the manuscript."
The Witch Mania by Charles MacKay
"A misunderstanding of the famous text of the Mosaic law, "Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live," no doubt led many conscientious men astray, whose superstition, warm enough before, wanted but a little corroboration to blaze out with desolating fury. In all ages of the world men have tried to hold converse with superior beings; and to pierce, by their means, the secrets of futurity."
The Pivot of Civilization by Margaret Sanger
Birth control, Mrs. Sanger claims, and claims rightly, to be a question of fundamental importance at the present time. I do not know how far one is justified in calling it the pivot or the corner-stone of a progressive civilization.
The Superstitions of Witchcraft by Howard Williams
The Superstitions of Witchcraft is designed to exhibit a consecutive review of the characteristic forms and facts of a creed which in the seventeenth century was a living and lively faith, and caused thousands of victims to be sent to the torture-chamber.
The Garden of Eden By Victoria Claflin Woodhull
MOST of the ideas which permeate our social, religious, and political institutions of to-day arise from misconceptions of the human body. These institutions which are the outcome of civilization define laws to regulate and control the actions of human beings.
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. By Mary Wollstonecraft
In what does man's pre-eminence over the brute creation consist? The answer is as clear as that a half is less than the whole; in Reason. What acquirement exalts one being above another? Virtue; we spontaneously reply.