Women Without Superstition

Women Without Superstition

Author: Annie Laurie Gaylor

Publisher: Freedom from Religion Foundation

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 706

ISBN-13:

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The collected writings of women freethinkers of the nineteenth & twentieth centuries


Woe to the Women--the Bible Tells Me So

Woe to the Women--the Bible Tells Me So

Author: Annie Laurie Gaylor

Publisher: Freedom from Religion Foundation

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13:

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WOE TO THE WOMEN takes up where Elizabeth Cady Stanton's THE WOMAN'S BIBLE left off.In these critical days when fundamentalists are trying to unite church and state, it behooves thoughtful women and men to "know thine enemy." Lucidly argued, concise and thorough, WOE TO THE WOMEN documents the bible's punitive, antediluvian rules and attitudes toward women.WOE TO THE WOMEN exposes the bible's harmful stereotypes about women as sin-inciting temptresses and their treatment as male property. This exposé examines biblical teachings about women's "nature," prostitution, sexual assault and incest, so-called uncleanliness, marriage, motherhood, divorce and adultery, grooming, abortion, and homosexuality, as well as "macho" standards for men.Delightfully illustrated by Alma Cuebas, it contains a valuable compendium of more than 200 sexist bible passages. WOE TO THE WOMEN is an essential guide for the reader who is too busy (or too non-masochistic) to study the bible.WOE TO THE WOMEN is a timely warning that the bible is a handbook for the subjugation of women, and that the only true barrier standing between it and women is a secular government.


Superstition and Other Essays

Superstition and Other Essays

Author: Robert G. Ingersoll

Publisher: Prometheus Books

Published: 2009-12-02

Total Pages: 169

ISBN-13: 1615924353

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Civil War veteran, successful lawyer, persuasive spokesman for the Republican Party, spellbinding orator, and controversial iconoclast, Col. Robert G. Ingersoll (1833-1899) was one of the best-known intellectuals of the 19th century. He rose to national prominence through his gift for oratory, which he publicly displayed on numerous lecture circuit tours. For almost twenty years this dedicated popularizer of progressive thinking and staunch critic of superstition would regularly address huge audiences, opening their minds to ideas that often provoked guarded whispers in private. Ingersoll was a man far ahead of his time, who advocated agnosticism, birth control, voting rights for women, the advancement of science, and civil rights for all races. Though eloquent on a wide variety of topics, he became most famous, and notorious, for his provocative lectures questioning the traditional, Bible-based Christian worldview of the age. In this volume are collected his best-known lectures on religion, the Bible, and related subjects. Included are "Why I Am an Agnostic"; "The Truth"; "What Is Religion?"; "Superstition"; "What Infidels Have Done"; "What Should You Substitute for the Bible as a Moral Guide?"; "Crumbling Creeds"; "The Liberty of Man, Woman, and Child"; and "Love." This outstanding collection is indispensable for freethinkers, humanists, and open-minded people of all persuasions. Note: This volume is available individually or as part of a two-volume set with On the Gods and Other Essays by Robert by Ingersoll: two-volume set (ISBN 1-59102-171-5): $50.


The Female Eunuch

The Female Eunuch

Author: Germaine Greer

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2009-02-06

Total Pages: 541

ISBN-13: 0061972800

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The publication of Germaine Greer's The Female Eunuch in 1970 was a landmark event, raising eyebrows and ire while creating a shock wave of recognition in women around the world with its steadfast assertion that sexual liberation is the key to women's liberation. Today, Greer's searing examination of the oppression of women in contemporary society is both an important historical record of where we've been and a shockingly relevant treatise on what still remains to be achieved.


Superstition and Science

Superstition and Science

Author: Derek Wilson

Publisher: Robinson

Published: 2019-06-06

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781472142580

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Between the Renaissance and the Enlightenment, Europe changed out of all recognition and particularly transformative were the ardent quest for knowledge and the astounding discoveries and inventions which resulted from it. The movement of blood round the body; the movement of the earth round the sun; the velocity of falling objects (and, indeed, why objects fall) - these and numerous other mysteries had been solved by scholars in earnest pursuit of scientia.


Restoring the Goddess

Restoring the Goddess

Author: Barbara G. Walker

Publisher: Prometheus Books

Published: 2000-03

Total Pages: 422

ISBN-13: 1615922334

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Hearkening back to the widespread worship of a mother goddess at the dawn of civilization, Walker argues for a restoration of this primal religious sensibility which celebrated the Earth's fertility and woman's innate power to bear new life.


Anti-Atheist Nation

Anti-Atheist Nation

Author: Petra Klug

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2022-12-30

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 1000804429

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Atheists are a growing but marginalized group in the American religious patchwork and they have been the target of ridicule and discrimination throughout the nation’s history. This book is the first comprehensive study of anti-atheism in the United States. It traces anti-atheism through five centuries of American history from colonization to the era of Donald Trump and contemporary conspiracy ideologies, such as the atheist New World Order. Describing anti-atheist prejudices and explaining the social and psychological mechanisms behind anti-atheist attitudes, it will appeal to scholars of sociology, religious studies and history with interests in religion in the United States.


The Good Atheist

The Good Atheist

Author: Dan Barker

Publisher: Ulysses Press

Published: 2011-01-25

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 1569758468

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How does an atheist respond to the question, What is the purpose of life? Barker helps you understand and appreciate why freely choosing to help and cooperate with others is the true path to finding purpose.


Creative Negativity

Creative Negativity

Author: Carol Hanbery MacKay

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 310

ISBN-13: 9780804738293

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Focusing on the early Modern and Victorian periods, the author finds covert revolutionaries in four familiar practitioners of a strategy she calls creative negativity: poet-photographer Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-1879), novelist-essayist Anne Thackeray Ritchie (1837-1919), activist-spiritual leader Annie Besant (1847-1933), and actress-writer Elizabeth Robins (1862-1952).