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Amazons of Black Sparta:
The Women Warriors of Dahomey
Thoroughly documented, they were the elite troops of the West African kingdom of Dahomey in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. No other group of women warriors, including those the Greeks dubbed Amazons for their alleged lack of one breast, has ever been proven, these girlz were the REAL THING, you messed with them, and you died.
Amazons of Black Sparta Ashes of Immortality:
Widow-Burning in India
Attempts to see the satis through Hindu eyes, providing an extensive experiential and psychoanalytic account of ritual self-sacrifice and self-mutilation in South Asia. Based on fifteen years of fieldwork in northern India, where the state-banned practice of sati reemerged in the 1970s, as well as extensive textual analysis.
Ashes of Immortality Bicycle Citizens:
The Political World of the Japanese Housewife
While the typical Japanese male politician glides through his district in air conditioned taxis, the typical female voter trundles along the side streets on a simple bicycle. In this first ethnographic study of the politics of the average female citizen in Japan, Robin LeBlanc argues that this taxi-bicycle contrast reaches deeply into Japanese society.
Bicycle Citizens Birth, Death, and Motherhood in Classical Greece
Uses case histories in the Hippocratic Epidemics to explore the social and cultural construction of childbirth in ancient Greece. Other sources include cure records and dedications from healing sanctuaries. Includes 12 b&w plates of ancient sculptures depicting childbirth scenes.
--Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
Birth, Death, and Motherhood Celtic Goddesses:
Warriors, Virgins, and Mothers
A path through myth, legend, history, and archeology to present us with a fairly brief, but overall comprehensive portrait of the divine feminine in the Celtic world. Drawing on sources as diverse as Welsh lore and ancient shrines buried beneath modern-day cathedrals, she illustrates the influence of goddesses in this ancient world, how their power was transmuted to that of saints with the dominance of Christianity.
Celtic Goddesses Celtic Women in Legend, Myth, and History
How did the early lives of real mothers, daughters and wives match the myths of Celtic women witches, warriors, and women? This title blends myth considerations with history and cultural insights, exploring history and literature to probe the reality of Celtic women's lives. An excellent supplement to any coverage of Celtic history and legend, this will appeal to both leisure audiences and those involved in Celtic studies.
--Midwest Book Review
Celtic Women in Legend... Contentious Traditions:
The Debate on Sati in Colonial India
Analyzes the debate on sati, or widow burning, in colonial India. Revises colonialist as well as nationalist historiography on the social reform of women's status in the colonial period and clarifies the complex and contradictory character of missionary writings on India. The history of widow burning is one of paradox. While the chief players in the debate argued over the religious basis of sati and the fine points of scriptural interpretation, the testimonials of women at the funeral pyres consistently addressed the material hardships and societal expectations attached to widowhood.
Contentious Traditions Dangerous Women:
Warriors, Grannies and Geishas of the Ming Dynasty
Explores the role of forgotten women of the Great Ming Dynasty period in Chinese history. This era was extremely patriarchal and certain women disrupted the traditional mold. The men of the Ming period feared these women and attempted to have them permanently forgotten.
Divides these women into five categories: geishas, grannies, warriors and mystics, predators, and recluse and malcontents. Using mythology, folk tales, drawings and historical records, it covers women who used unconventional methods to challenge established society. Anyone who is interested in learning more about the history of women should read these colorful portraits.
Dangerous Women Death of Woman Wang, The
Thought-provoking stories of the Chinese county of T'an-Ch'eng in the 17th Century bring the reader directly into the course of history. The tales of woe, romance, and murder bring this distant setting boldly alive while secretly educating the reader about the details of Chinese government. This is one book that will change your opinion of history and historical novels.
Death of Woman Wang, The Eurykleia and Her Successors:
Female Figures of Authority in Greek Poetics
Talks about the many themes that involve women in Greek society. Does an excellent and very thorough job of paralleling the stories to make them applicable the modern day woman.
Eurykleia and Her Successors (softcover) Eurykleia and Her Successors (hardcover) Geisha:
The Life, the Voices, the Art
In remarkable detail, and with the cooperation of geisha in Kyoto and Tokyo, this beautiful book captures the private world of the geisha, revealing her in her role as a human work of art, the perfect woman artistically, conversationally, and erotically. 95 color photos.
Geisha Gender, Law, and Resistance in India
In-depth portrait of the life of women in India, and in particular how women exert influence in a strongly patriarchal society. As a college teacher I am planning to use it regularly both in teaching about India and about women in traditional societies. It might also be useful alongside a text in an introductory course in social anthropology or women's studies.
Gender, Law, and Resistance Gender and Aging in Mesopotamia:
The Gilgamesh Epic
and Other Ancient Literature
A study of gender in the ancient civilization of Mesopotamia. Covers topics such as: The Conflict of Generations in Ancient Mesopotamian Myths, Gendered Old Age, Old(er) Women, Images of Women, Gender and Sexuality, The Female Sage in Mesopotamian Literature, and more.
Gender and Aging in Mesopotamia Gender and Immortality
Deborah Lyons argues for the heroine as a distinct category in ancient Greek religious ideology and daily practice. The heroine, she believes, must be located within a network of relations between male and female, mortal and immortal. Using evidence ranging from Homeric epic to Attic vase painting to ancient travel writing, she attempts to reintegrate the feminine into our picture of Greek notions of the hero.
Gender and Immortality Giants of Japan:
The Lives of Japan's Greatest Men and Women
As one largely unacquainted with Japanese history and culture who had a need to learn more about the country, I found Giants of Japan a helpful, accessible, and even fun-to-read overview. Weston's format of bite-sized profiles makes the book easy to put down and pick up repeatedly without losing continuity.
Giants of Japan Grace in China:
An American Woman Beyond the Great Wall, 1934-1974
This is a true story of a woman who lived amidst powerful historical forces. It is told with the passion of Grace's own voice, from her letters, articles, memoir, and interviews. When we see what she saw from the inside, most of us Americans realize how little we knew about China.
Grace in China Hathor Rising:
The Power of the Goddess in Ancient Egypt
Follows the evolving role of the solar serpent goddess known as Hathor through the reigns of such famous pharaohs as Hatshepsut, Akhenaten, and Tutankhamun. The book is lavishly illustrated with black and white photographs and drawings, all clearly explained and tightly woven into the narrative.
Hathor Rising Liltih's Cave
A great collection of supernatural tales, both long and short. The general reader will appreciate the writing style, while folklore specialists will be glad he has included notes and references. Includes information on the Lilith belief.
Liltih's Cave Lilith-The First Eve:
Historical and Psychological
Aspects of the Dark Feminine
Written by Siegmund Hurwitz, Gela Jacobson, and Marie-Louise von Franz. The book includes lots of information on the Lilith belief, and goes into a fairly detailed etymology of her name.
Lilith-The First Eve Memoirs of a Geisha
The word geisha does not mean prostitute, as Westerners ignorantly assume, it means artisan or artist. The geisha trained as long and hard as any geisha who must master the arts of music, dance, clever conversation, crafty battle with rival beauties, and cunning seduction of wealthy patrons. The book follows a plausible female protagonist in a vivid, now-vanished world, and gloriously captures Japanese culture by expressing thoughts in authentic Eastern metaphors.
Memoirs of a Geisha (softcover) Memoirs of a Geisha (hardcover) Mistress of the House, Mistress of Heaven:
Women in Ancient Egypt
Ancient Egyptian art was the star attraction of the Mediterranean world for 3000 years. This book examines those scenes in over 25 American museums as well as private collections which serve to shed light on the role of Ancient Egyptian women in their society.
--Francesca Jourdan
Mistress of the House Onna Rashiku (Like a Woman):
The Diary of a Language Learner in Japan
This book bridges theories of feminism and second language acquisition. Karen Ogulnick examines the dialectic between language learning and identity in this original and interdisciplinary book. Combining autobiographical reflections with a scholarly analysis of a diary she kept while learning Japanese in Hiroshima, her book offers rich insight into the complex interplay between gender, race, culture, social class, historical experiences, and language learning.
Onna Rashiku Other Half of History Women in Ancient Rome
Most Roman history books look at things from a mans perspective, this book examines Roman history from a woman's perspective. It's intended audience is young readers in grade, and early high school. Great book for showing young people the half of Roman history they aren't taught in school.
Other Half of History On the Edge of Dream:
The Women in Celtic Myth and Legend
Exerting all the primal pull of great storytelling, these 15 haunting and lyrical tales activate ancient memories buried deeply within our collective unconscious. Featuring startling transformations and sweet revenge, bawdy humor and melancholy lyricism, the tales gathered here celebrate the deep reverence which the Celts had for all natural phenomena.
On the Edge of Dream Perpetua's Passion:
The Death and Memory of a Young Roman Woman
studies the third-century martyrdom of a young woman and places it in the intellectual and social context of her age. Conflicting ideas of religion, family and gender are explored as Salisbury follows Perpetua from her youth in a wealthy Roman household to her imprisonment and death in the arena.
Perpetua's Passion (softcover) Perpetua's Passion (hardcover) Prostitution, Sexuality and the Law in Ancient Rome
Prostitution was very common in Ancient Rome, this book goes into great detail about such things as: law in Ancient Roman society, the status of prostitutes and pimps as Roman Citizens, the taxation of Roman prostitutes, the sale of slaves, the Roman legal perspectives on prostitution, and more.
Prostitution, Sexuality and the Law Roman Women
This collection of essays features important Roman women who were active in politics, theater, cultural life, and religion from the first through the fourth centuries. A difficult task considering that the Romans recorded very little about women. They believed that a feeble intellect, a weakness in character, and a general incompetence prevented a woman from participating in public life.
Roman Women (softcover) Roman Women (hardcover) Screening Culture, Viewing Politics:
An Ethnography of Television, Womanhood,
and Nation in Postclolonial India
Presents a cutting-edge ethnography of television-viewing in India. With a focus on the responses of upwardly-mobile, yet lower-to-middle class urban women to state-sponsored entertainment serials, Mankekar demonstrates how television in India has profoundly shaped women's place in the family, community, and nation, and the crucial role it has played in the realignment of class, caste, consumption, religion, and politics.
Screening Culture, Viewing Politics Spaces of Their Own:
Women's Public Sphere in Transnational China
An interesting study of women in modern China. Women are by no means treated as well as men, but considering how far things have come, this is a utopia in comparison to the past. This book will give you some idea of what it is like to be a woman in modern China.
Spaces of Their Own The Assembly of Women (Ecclesiazusae)
In Mayhew's translation of the classic by Aristophanes, the heroine Praxagora leads a conspiracy of hags dressed as men to vote themselves into power in Ancient Greece. Fresh from her victory, Praxagora unveils her plan for a brave, new world where all property, children and sex are held in common.
The Assembly of Women The Comfort Women:
Japan's Brutal Regime of Enforced Prostitution in the Second World War
One of the ravages of war has always been rape, but in the 1930s and '40s the Imperial Japanese Forces made it systematic, forcing thousands of women into sexual slavery for their soldiers at highly organized comfort stations. The comfort women who tell their horrific stories in this book were shipped to the front lines and all over the war zones, often arriving in the same shipments with munitions and food.
--Francesca Coltrera
The Comfort Women (softcover) The Comfort Women (hardcover) The Hebrew Goddess
This cult of the feminine goddess, though often repressed, remained a part of the faith of the Jewish people. Goddesses answered the need for mother, lover, queen, intercessor. Even today, lingers cryptically in the traditional Hebrew Sabbath invocation. Includes information on the Lilith belief.
The Hebrew Goddess The Silver Wheel:
Women's Myths & Mysteries
in the Celtic Tradition
An excellent book, unlike many other books on the market, this one was well researched with reputable sources, and contains a great deal of wisdom that could help many women (even if they don't have Celtic leanings). Heavy focus is placed upon Jungian psychology and mythological analysis, a little heady in places, but is well written and not too difficult.
The Silver Wheel The Witch in Every Woman:
Reawakening the Magical Nature of
the Feminine to Heal, Protect, Create, and Empower
Cabot brings more than forty years of experience as a spiritual counselor and practicing Witch to cultivate and celebrate the secret, magical side of every woman's nature. Laurie shows you how ancient truths can empower you during many of life's dark moments and lead you on a path of success and personal fulfillment. Through story, ritual activity, and spiritual communion, you will learn how to use your instinctual nature to achieve your goals and feel energized, strong, and capable in your daily life.
The Witch in Every Woman Whose News?:
The Media and Women's Issues
A detailed, systematic analysis of press coverage of five issues related to Indian women and a critique of the portrayal of women on prime time television between 1979 and 1988. The five issues are: dowry-related deaths; rape; the right to maintenance of Muslim divorcees; the misuse of sex determination tests such as amniocentesis; and the re-emergence of the banned practice of sati (widow burning).
--Book News, Inc
Whose News? Woman's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets
This fascinating, scholarly hodgepodge spotlights the feminist underpinnings of myth, religion, and culture. Before being lionized as zaftig Norse angels who guided strong warriors to Valhalla, Valkyries may have offered rebirth through cannibalization. Little Red Riding Hood was based on Diana, goddess of the hunt.
Marriage was once considered a sin, not a sacred union: St. Bernard once proclaimed it was easier for a man to bring the dead back to life than to live with a woman without endangering his soul. A few of the other topics expounded upon are the Milky Way, Cinderella, the moon, and males giving birth. Includes information on the Lilith belief.
Woman's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets Women and Alcohol in a Highland Maya Town:
Water of Hope, Water of Sorrow Revised Edition
The scope of this book is much broader than the title implies. Takes place in a Mayan town in Mexico, and looks at the place of alcohol in the social structure, including the paradoxical role of rum which is aligned with religious experience, but with the potential to do harm.
However, in living in the community and in asking questions about drinking, the author necessarily broadened her theme to include child-rearing practices, shamanism, and the control exerted over envy among community members. Although based in anthropological research, this book is very readable. The anecdotes are interesting.
Women and Alcohol in a Highland Maya Town Women and Society in Greek and Roman Egypt:
A Sourcebook
The book offers much information about the role and importance of women in ancient Greek and Roman Egypt. The chapters cover royalty, religion, family, law, economy, childhood, education and marriage. The views presented in the scholarly essays are backed up by cited evidence in contracts, letters and other surviving records. It is a very useful book for the study of women.
--Francesca Jourdan
Women and Society... (softcover) Women and Society... (hardcover) Women in Ancient Egypt
Looks at the art and written records of ancient Egypt to discern the position occupied by women, what was expected of them and what was denied to them, what they could achieve, and what men thought of them. Gracefully written, abundantly illustrated, and nicely produced.
--Book News, Inc.
Women in Ancient Egypt Women in Celtic Myth:
Tales of Extraordinary Women
from Ancient Celtic Tradition
Offers interesting history on the Celts and insightful interpretations and analysis of Celtic mythological tales after retelling these great stories from the point of view of the main female characters. A great book.
--Sharon Simmons
Women in Celtic Myth Women of the Celts
I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in Celtic History, gender issues, or feminism. The work is factually accurate and detailed, as well as, entertaining and readable.
--Mazarbul@AOL.com
Women of the Celts Women's Life in Greece and Rome:
A Source Book in Translation
This collection of writings from the ancient civilizations of Greece and Rome focus on women's lives. However, do not buy this thinking you are getting women's views, that is rare in the record. Well organized and well cited, it provides an excellent teaching aid to the professor and a quick reference to scholars and lay persons.
--TammyJo Eckhart
Women's Life in Greece and Rome Women Warriors:
A History
Takes a look at women warriors throughout world history. Turns up well known examples like Joan of Arc and Molly Pitcher, and looks at the contributions of lesser known fighters from ancient Scandinavia and Africa on down to the present. Has a keen eye for gruesome detail, and he leaves you feeling glad you don't have to scrap with any of these many fearsome heroines.
Women Warriors You Can Be a Woman Egyptologist
Dr. Bryan's work has taken her from digging in Egypt to collecting and cataloging the stunning golden artwork of the Egyptian pharaohs and their families. School Library Journal stated in part: The writing is quite good; an Egyptologist shares how she became interested in the profession, what she does, and some of the more exciting discoveries she's made.
You Can Be a Woman Egyptologist 
