Suggested Reading List for Dianic Witchcraft, other Wiccan and Magick Traditions,
Feminist Theory, and Related Topics
(This list is being revised, reorganized, annotated, and updated.)
Core Readings:
Women's Rites,Women's Mysteries - Ruth Barrett
Witches and Pagans- Max Dashu
The Spiral Dance - Starhawk
Ariadne's Thread - Shekhinah Mountainwater
The Holy Book of Women's Mysteries - Z Budapest
The Open Mind - Dawna Markova
The Heart of Wicca - Ellen Cannon Reed
Wisewoman's Guide to Spells, Rituals and Goddess Lore - Elisabeth Brooke
Earth Power - Scott Cunningham
The Chalice and the Blade - Riane Eisler
Sacred Pleasure - Riane Eisler
GynEcology - Mary Daly
Recommended Reading:
The Magical Household - Scott Cunningham
Spell Crafts - Scott Cunningham
Magical Herbalism - Scott Cunningham
Goddesses and Heroines - Patricia Monaghan
Seasons of the Witch - Patricia Monaghan
The Witches Goddess - Janet and Stewart Farrar
Spells and How They Work- Janet and Stewart Farrar
Female Erasure:What You Need To Know About Gender Politics' War On Women, the Female Sex and Human Rights - Ruth Barrett, ed.
Gender Hurts - Sheila Jeffreys
Cat Spells - Claire Nahmad
Earth, Air, Fire and Water - Robin Skelton and Margaret Blackwood
Moon Magick - DJ Conway
Ancient Ways - Dan and Pauline Campanelli
Wheel of the Year - Dan and Pauline Campanelli
Drawing Down the Moon - Margot Adler
Women's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets - Barbara Walker
Virgin, Mother, Crone - Donna Wilshire
The Heart of the Goddess - Hallie Iglehart Austen
When God Was a Woman, Merlin Stone
The Once and Future Goddess - Elinor Gadon
The Women's Wheel of Life - Elizabeth Davis and Carol Leonard
Encyclopedia of White Magic- Paddy Slade
Encyclopedia of Signs, Omens, and Superstitions - Zolar
Encyclopedia of Wicca & Witchcraft - Raven Grimassi, ed.
The Cauldron of Change - De Anna Alba
The Act of Will- Roberto Assagioli
Beyond God the Father - Mary Daly
The Year in Ireland - Kevin Danaher
Myths and Symbols in Pagan Europe - H.R. Ellis Davidson
The Witches Bible, Vol. 2, - Janet and Stewart Farrar
Eight Sabbats for Witches - Janet and Stewart Farrar
The Golden Bough- James Frazer
Woman, Church and State - Matilda Gage
The Interpretation of Symbols - Clifford Geertz
The Gods and Goddesses of Old Europe - Marija Gimbutas
The Language of the Goddess - Marija Gimbutas
Priestesses - Norma Lorre Goodrich
The White Goddess - Robert Graves
The Path Through the Labyrinth - Miriam Green
A Witch Alone - Miriam Green
A Calendar of Festivals - Miriam Green
Natural Magic - Miriam Green
Woman and Nature, Susan Griffin
Daughters of the Goddess: Studies of Healing, Identity and Empowerment - Wendy Griffin, ed.
Italian Witchcraft, The Old Religion of Southern Europe - Raven Grimassi
Fugitive Information - Kay Leigh Hagan
The Psychology of Ritual - Murry Hope
The Triumph of the Moon - Ronald Hutton
The Earth's Cycle of Celebration - Glennie Kindred
The Customs and Ceremonies of Britain - Charles Knightly
Etruscan Roman Remains - Charles G. Leland
The Creation of Feminist Consciousness - Gerta Lerner
The Open Mind - Dawna Markova
Singing the Soul Back Home - Caitlin Matthews
The Celtic Shaman - John Matthews
The Encyclopedia of Celtic Wisdom - Caitlin and John Matthews
The Western Way, volumes 1 and 2 - Caitlin and John Matthews
Energy Anatomy - Carolyn Myss
The Double Queen - Vicki Noble
Daughter of the Goddess - Naomi Ozaniec
Spellcraft - Robin Skelton
The Magic Arts in Celtic Britain - Lewis Spence
Circle Round: Raising Children in Goddess Traditions - Starhawk, Anne Hill, and Diane Baker
The Pagan Book of Living and Dying - Starhawk, M. Macha NightMare, and The Reclaiming Collective
Walker Between World - R. J. Stuart
Through Her Eyes: Women's Perspectives on World Religions - Arvind Sharma and Katherine K. Young
Possessing the Secret of Joy - Alice Walker
Warrior Marks, Alice Walker - Pratibha Parmar, and Vicki Austin-Smith
The Women's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets - Barbara Walker
Celebrating Ourselves: A Crone Ritual Book - Edna M. Ward, ed.
Virgin, Mother, Crone - Donna Wilshire
Promiscuities: The Secret Struggle for Womanhood - Naomi Wolf
The Spell of the Sensuous - David Abram
The Other Side of Eden - Hugh Brody
Verbal Self-Defense series - Suzette Haden-Elgin
The Nature of Economies - Jane Jacobs
The Language War - Robin Lakoff
In the Absence of the Sacred - Jerry Mander
The Death of Nature - Carolyn Merchant
Ishmael - Daniel Quinn
The End of Manhood - John Stoltenberg
Stone Age Economics - Marshall Sahlins