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A Goddess Bibliography
Agrawala, V.S. trans. Devi-mahatyam: The Glorification of the Great Goddess (Varanasi: All India Trust, 1963)
Bennett, Lynn. Dangerous Wives and Sacred Sisters: Social and Symbolic Roles of High Caste Women in Nepal (New York: Columbia University Press, 1983)
Berkson, Camille. The Divine and the Demoniac: Mahisa's Struggle with Durga (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991)
Beyer, Stephen. The Cult of Tara: Magic and Ritual in Tibet (Berkeley: University
Coburn, Thomas, Encountering the Goddess: A Translation of the Devi-Mahatyam and a Study of Its Interpretation (Albany:SUNY Press, 1991))
Doniger (O'Flaherty), Wendy. Asceticism and Sexuality in the Mythology of Shiva (London: Oxford, 1973), Other People's Myths, (New York: Macmillan, 1988), Hindu Myths (London: Penguin Books, 1975)
Dowman, Keith. Skydancer: The Secret Life and Songs of Lady Yeshe Tsogyel (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1984)
Erndl, Kathleen. Victory to the Mother: The Hindu Goddess of Northwest India in Myth, Ritual, and Symbol (New York: Oxford University Press. 1993)
Falk, Nancy and Gross, Rita. Unspoken Worlds: Women's Religious Lives in Non- Western Cultures (San Francisco: Harper, 1980)
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Haddad, Yvonne Yazbeck and Ellison Banks Findly, eds. Women, Religion, and Social Change (New York: State University of Albany Press, 1985)
Harlan Lindsey and Paul B. Courtright, eds. From The Margins of Hindu Marriage:Essays on Gender, Religion, and Culture (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995)
Hawley, Jack. Sati: The Blessing and the Curse: The Burning of Widows in Indian Religion (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994), and Dona Wulff, The Divine Consort: Radha and the Goddesses of India (Boston: Beacon Press, 1982), Devi: Goddesses of India (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996
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McLean, Devoted to the Goddess: The Life and Work of Ramprasad (Albany: SUNY Press, 1998)
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Palmer, Martin, et. al. Kuan Yin: Myths and Prophecies of the Chinese Goddess of Compassion (San Francisco: Thorsons, 1995)
Pintchman, Tracy. The Rise of the Goddess in the Hindu Tradition (Albany, State University of New York Press, 1994)
Rehejya and Gold. Listen to the Heron's Words: Reimiging Gender and Kinship in North India (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994)
Rosaldo, M.Z. and L. Lamphere,eds. Women, Culture, and Society, (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1974) see Sherry Ortner's "Is Female to Male as Nature is to Culture?"
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