Volume 2 Number 2 (2023)

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“The Anointing” Mosaic art by Lilian Broca

S/HE: An International Journal of Goddess Studies (Volume 2 Number 2, 2023)

Published by Mago Books

October 2023

A total of 157 pages

Citation: S/HE: An International Journal of Goddess Studies Volume 2 Number 2 (2023)


Table of Contents

EDITORS’ INTRODUCTION (Helen Hye-Sook Hwang, Ph.D., Helen Benigni, Ph.D. and Mary Ann Beavis, Ph.D.)

ART AND POETRY

“Mother-roots” by Mary Saracino

“Meet Me in the Forest” by Mary Saracino

“Comfort Zone” by Alshaad Kara

“Representtions of the Goddess in her many manifesttions” by Andrea Redmond

“The Circle of Samsara” by Veronica Leandrez

“Persephone” by Veronica Leandrez

“Yemaya” by Veronica Leandrez

ESSAYS

“From Lilith to Mary Magdalene: The Divine Feminine in the Art of Lilian Broca” by Mary Ann Beavis

“Flesh of the Goddess: A Compassionate and Critical Examination of Western Consumptive Practices from Ice Cream to Ayahuasca” by Alison Newvine

“Thesmophoria: Women’s Mysteries of Fertility and the Foundation of Greek Civilization” by Mara Lynn Keller

INVITED ESSAY

“The Homeric Hymn to Demeter” by Susan Hawthorne

BOOK REVIEWS

“Rachel S. McCoppin, Goddess Lost: How the Downfall of Female Deities Degraded Women’s Status in World Cultures” (McFarland & Company, 2023), reviewed by Pegi Eyers                               

“Margaret Barker, The Great Lady: Restoring Her Story” (Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2023), reviewed by Ally Kateusz

“Glenys Livingstone, A Poiesis of the Creative Cosmos: Celebrating Her within PaGaian Sacred Ceremony” (Columbia, SC: Girl God Books, 2023), reviewed by Francesca Tronetti

CONTRIBUTORS

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Mission Statement

S/HE: An International Journal of Goddess Studies is a web-based, peer-reviewed international scholarly journal committed to the academic exploration, analysis and interpretation, from a range of disciplinary perspectives, of Goddesses and the Female Divine in all religions, traditions, and cultures, to be ancient, historical, or contemporary. The journal is a multi-disciplinary forum for the publication of feminist scholarship in Goddess Studies and for discussion, comparison, and dialogue among scholars of differing feminist perspectives. 


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