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When God Was a Woman is the U.S. title of a 1976 book by sculptor and art historian Merlin Stone. It was published earlier in the United Kingdom as The Paradise Papers: The Suppression of Women's Rites .
Stone's hypotheses are radical and challenging to the accepted views of antiquity. She is the author of numerous short stories, book reviews, and essays, including 3,000 Years of Racism. Stone's book When God Was a Woman had a profound effect on the international Goddess movement of the 1970s and 1980s. [3]
When God Was a Woman, Merlin Stone (1976) Woman on the Edge of Time, Marge Piercy (1976) Women, Money and Power, Phyllis Chesler with Emily Jane Goodman (1976) "Women's Liberation Builds Strong Bodies in Many Ways", Secret Storm (ca. 1976) [337] "Women Talk Back", Secret Storm (ca. 1976) [338]
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The Wages of Men and Women: Should They be Equal? We Also Made History; What About Men? When God Was a Woman; Whipping Girl; Who Cooked Adam Smith's Dinner? Whore of New York; Woman Hating; Woman on the Edge of Time; The Woman's Bible; Woman's Evolution; Women and Economics; Women and Madness; Women Philosophers in the Long Nineteenth Century ...
Goddess Remembered is a 1989 Canadian documentary on the Goddess movement and feminist theories surrounding Goddess worship in Old European culture according to Marija Gimbutas, and Merlin Stone's 1976 book When God Was a Woman.
A prayer by Betty Stam is also included in the book. The prayer asks that the full will of God be done in her life, irrespective of the cost to herself. [8] In 2003, Andrew Farmer of Crosswalk.com quoted a portion of the book in support of his argument that singleness is a spiritual gift that God gives to single people for the period in which ...
The core of the book lies in chapters 5, "Archaeological Evidence for Folk Religions in Ancient Israel", 6 "The Goddess Asherah and Her Cult", and 7 "Asherah, Women's Cults, and 'Official Yahwism '". These chapters describe polytheistic religion in ancient Israel, which, Dever points out, was the reality in the religious lives of most people.