I added a super brief synopsis of the book, visible when the respective underlined title is "moused over," in English and/or German.

 

 

 

Fiction

Lilian Faschinger,  Madgalena the Sinner (1997).

Christa Wolf,  Cassandra: A Novel and Four Essays (1983).

Christa Wolf,  Medea: A Retelling (1998).

June Brindel, Ariadne: A Novel of Ancient Crete (1980).

JuneBrindel. Phaedra: A Novel of Ancient Athens (1964).

Christine de Pizan, The Book of The City of Ladies (1998).

Irmtraud Morgner, Life and Adventures of Trobadora Beatrice As Chronicled By Her Minstrel Laura: A Novel in Thirteen Books and Seven Intermezzos (2000).

Irmtraud Morgner, Amanda: Ein Hexenroman. (1983).

Irmtraud Morgner, Das Heroische Testament. (1999)

Starhawk, The Fifth Sacred Thing (1993).

Marge Piercy, Woman On the Edge of Time (1990).

Marge Piercy, He, She, It (1993).

Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale (1986).

Gabriel Garcia Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude (1970).

Isabel Allende, The House of the Ghosts (1987).

Alice Walker, The Temple of My Familiar (1989).

Alice Walker, By the Light of My Father's Smile (1998).

Jeannette Winterson Sexing the Cherry (1991).

Angela Carter, Nights at the Circus (1984).

Mary Renault,  The King Must Die (1958).

Mary Renault,  The Bull from The Sea (1962).

Deepak Chopra, The Return of Merlin (1996). 

Anita Diamant,  The Red Tent (1997).

Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Lady of Avalon (1997).

Marion Zimmer Bradley,  The Forest House (1995).

Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Mists of Avalon (1987).

Angelika Mechtel, Die Prinzipalin, 1994.

Gisela Elsner, The Taming (German, 1984).

Barbara Frischmuth, Die Klosterschule (The Convent School). 1968.

Helga Königsdorf , Meine Ungehörigen Träume (My Indecent Dreams), 1978.

 

Non-Fiction

Jean Shinoda Bolen, Goddesses in Everywoman  (1984).

Marion Woodman,  Holding the Tension of the Opposites/Audio Cassette (1994).

Marion Woodman,  Leaving My Father’s House: A Journey to Consciousness Femininity  (1993).

Marion Woodman, Sitting by the Well (1991).

Marion Woodman, Chaos or Creativity (1991).

Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With The Wolves (1992).

Clarissa Pinkola Estés, The Creative Fire: Myths and Stories About the Cycles of Creativity/ AudioCassettes (1993).

Clarissa Pinkola Estés, In the House of the Riddle Mother : Common Archetypal Motifs in Women's Dreams/Audio Cassette ( 1997).

Helen M. Luke,  The Way of Story: Myths and Stories for the Inner Life (1995).

Helen M. Luke, The Way of Women and Other Essays (1994).

Kathleen Noble, The Sound of A Silver Horn: Reclaiming the Heroism in A Female Context (1994).

David E. Jones, Women Warriors: A History (1970).

Marilyn French, Beyond Power (1985).

Merlin Stone,  When God Was a Woman (1978).

Merlin Stone,  Ancient Mirrors of Womanhood: A Treasury of Goddess and Heroine Lore from Around the World (1979).

Göttner-Abendroth, Heide. Dancing Goddess: Principles of a Matriarchal Aesthetic, (1991).

Göttner-Abendroth, Heide.  Das Matriarchat I: Geschichte seiner Erforschung, (1989)

Göttner-Abendroth, Heide. Die Göttin und ihr Heros: Die Matriarchalen Religionen: Mythos, Märchen und Dichtung, (1980).

Houston, Jean.  Myths for the Future: A Futurist Look at the Archetypes which Guide Our Common Destiny, (1995).

Lerner, Gerda.  The Creation of Patriarchy, (1986).

Lerner, Gerda.   The Creation of Feminist Consciousness: From the Middle Ages to Eighteen-Seventy, (1983).

Lerner, Gerda.   The Majority Finds Its Past: Placing Women in History, (1979).

Von Franz, Marie Louise.  On Dreams & Death: A Jungian Interpretation, (1997).

Le Guin, Ursula K.  The Left Hand of Darkness.  New York: Ace Books, 1969.

Russ, Joanna.  The Female Man, (1975).

Tepper, Sheri S.  Six Moon Dance, (1998).

Walker, Barbara G.  Amazon: A Novel, (1983).

Wittig, Monique.  Les Guérillères, (1985).

 

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