pt. 1. Discovering a history of power: What the goddess means to women: poem / Ntozake Shange -- The great goddess : who was she? / Merlin Stone -- Women and culture in goddess-oriented Old Europe / Marija Gimbutas -- Prepatriarchal female/goddess images / Adrienne Rich -- The origins of music : women's goddess worship / Sophie Drinker -- Witchcraft as a goddess religion / Starhawk -- From the house of the Yemanja : the goddess heritage of Black women / Sabrina Sojourner -- The three faces of goddess spirituality / Merlin Stone -- Why women need the goddess : phenomenological, psychological, and political reflections / Carol P. Christ -- Mythic Heras as models of strength and wisdom: prose poem / Robin Morgan -- Ancient mirrors of womanhood / Merlin Stone -- The Amazon legacy / Phyllis Chesler -- Tales of a reincarnated Amazon princess : the invincible wonder woman! / Gloria Steinem -- Growing up with legends of the Chinese swrdswomen / Siew Hwa Beh -- Meanings of matriarchy / Margot Adler -- Drawing from mythology in women's quest for selfhood / Bella Debrida -- Our heritage is our power / Judy Chicago -- pt. 2. Manifesting personal power: Consciousness/energy/action: poem / Judy Grahn -- A consciousness manifesto / Nancy F.W. Passmore -- Consciousness, politics, and magic / Starhawk -- The metaphors of power / Barbara Starrett -- Womanpower : energy re-sourcement / Sally Gearhart -- Gyn/ecology : spinning new time/space / Mary Daly -- Feminist witchcraft : controlling our own inner space / Naomi Goldenberg -- Contemporary feminist rituals / Kay Turner -- Honor and ceremony in women's rituals / E.M. Broner -- Self-images of strength and wholeness: poem / Marge Piercy -- Images and models--in process / Juanita Weaver -- Martial arts meditations / Emily E. Culpepper -- From sacred blood to the curse and beyond / Judy Grahn -- The healing powers of women / Chellis Glendinning -- Expanding personal power through meditation / Hallie Iglehart -- Feeding the feminist psyche through ritual theater / Batya Podos -- See for yourself : women's spirituality in holistic art / Mary Beth Edelson -- Images of spiritual power in women's fiction / Carol P. Christ and Charlene Spretnak -- pt. 3. Transforming the political: The unity of politics and spirituality: prose poem / Adrienne Rich -- Sisterhood as cosmic covenant / Mary Daly -- The personal is political / Sheila D. Collins -- Dimensions of spirituality / Judy Davis and Juanita Weaver -- Politics, spirituality and models of change / Dorothy I. Riddle -- The politics of feminist spirituality / Anne Kent Rush -- Metaphysical feminism / Robin Morgan -- The politics of women's spirituality / Charlene Spretnak -- Feminist spirituality : the politics of the psyche / Judith Antonelli -- The unnatural divorce of spirituality and politics / Hallie Iglehart -- Ethics and justice in goddess religion / Starhawk -- Applications of spirituality as a political force: poem / June Jordan -- Witch : spooking the patriarchy during the late sixties -- On common ground : Native American and feminist spirituality approaches in the struggle to save Mother Earth / Judith Todd -- Spiritual dimensions of feminist anti-nuclear activism / Gina Foglia and Dorit Wolffberg -- Spiritual techniques for re-powering survivors of sexual assault / Carolyn R. Shaffer -- The Christian Right's "holy war" against feminism / Charlene Spretnak -- The voice of women's spirituality in futurism / Barb Copper -- Women's collective spirit : exemplified and envisioned : Grace Shinell. Appendix: Two debates: 1. Does hierarchy have a place in women's spirituality?: Spiritual hierarchies : the empress' new clothes? / Gloria Z. Greenfield -- Response: The vows, wows, and joys of the high priestess or what do you people do anyway? / Z. Budapest -- 2. Are goddesses and matriarchies merely figments of feminist imagination?: myths and matriarchies / Sally R. Binford -- Responses / Merlin Stone and Charlene Spretnak -- Counter-response / Sally R. Binford -- Post-counter-response / Charlene Spretnak -- Afterword: Feminist politics and rthe nature of the mind / Charlene Spretnak.