She Rises: Why Goddess Feminism, Activism, and Spirituality?

by Mago Books, Kaalii Cargill (Editor)

She Rises is a guidebook to the consciousness of the Great Goddess, the primordial consciousness of WE in S/HE, by contemporary Goddessians. The question, “Why Goddess Feminism, Activism, and Spirituality?” taken as the weft is interwoven with the warp of the answers provided by ninety contributors from around the world. She Rises puts forth ever-unfolding patterns of Goddessian thoughts, experiences, and visions expressed through a variety of works including short writings, poems, essays, artworks, and research papers. Our authors take us far and near, from the cosmic horizon to the very political site of one’s inner feeling. Probing the very foundation of one’s thinking/feeling/sensing, She Rises collectively re-members and re-stores what has been forgotten or rather erased in the mind of people under the advancement of patriarchal times. The acoustic/semantic/visual chorus of this book sometimes whispers and other times trumpets the premise that knowing the Goddess is a beginning of one’s action to re-create the self and the world. More to the structure, She Rises taps into the gynocentric power of the numeric symbolism of three and nine by (1) calling Parts as Mothers and Chapters as Sisters and (2) inventing the Nine Sisters under the Three Mothers.

477 pages, Kindle Edition

First published June 18, 2015

Reviews

[Hearth · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great book about Goddess worship and feminism. A review on my blog http://hearthmoonblog.com/she-rises-w...

[NormaCenva · Rating 3 out of 5]

Actual Rating 3.5 Stars

This is a very interesting book and in places very touching.
I enjoyed the art in it immensely!

[Susan · Rating 3 out of 5]

There are some beautiful nuggets in this book, but fundamentally this is not my Goddess spirituality. There's an almost evangelical zeal in some of the pieces, while it also remains mired in outdated Second Wave theory and the myth of the matriarchy. Several of the authors are well known for being trans exclusionary and biological determinism is everywhere in this book. I wanted to love it and I have taken some beautiful ideas from it but ultimately I think this is a fairly retrograde book.