Sacred dimensions of women's experience / [electronic resource] edited by Elizabeth Dodson Gray.

Includes bibliographical references.

1. Women's creativity -- There's no kin like kindred spirits / Linda Weltner -- Creating sacred emotional space / Carol Goldman -- A woman's path to power as a sacred process / Lois H. Grace Stovall -- The sacredness of our spiritual journeys / Ann Thompson Traver -- The artist as social activist amid adversity : how the job is done / Corita Kent -- Creating the possible / Judith Stone -- 2. Giving birth -- Homebirth : the sacred act of creation / Sydney Amara Morris -- Born and born again : childbirth rituals from a mother's perspective / Myriel Crowley Eykamp -- Pregnant with peace / Anon. -- 3. Caregiving -- The labor after creation / Therese Saulnier -- The truth will set you free, but first it will make you crazy / Mary Guerrera Congo -- Listening as the language of love : caring for an aging parent / Marie L. Norton -- 4. Creating sacred space -- Women as creators of sacred order / Elizabeth Dodson Gray -- Creating Sabbath space / Terry Y. Goldstein -- Painting the seasons "sacred" / Elizabeth Dodson Gray -- Sanctifying the home : ritual art of the women of Bengal / Elinor W. Gadon -- Sacred solutions : Afro-Brazilian women, ritual power, and art / Mikelle Smith-Omari -- Coming home like rivers to the sea : a women's ritual / Carolyn McDade & Lucile Schuck Longview -- 5. Doing housework -- Housework as homemaking / Phyllis W. Harlow -- The Zen of housework / Marlane van Hall -- Women's work and the senseof time in women's lives / Kathryn Allen Rabuzzi -- 6. Feeding as sacred ritual -- Cooking : divine and destructive / Sarah Hall Maney -- Learning to make grandmother's strudel / Marcia Zimmerman -- The tender gift of breastfeeding / Dana Raphael -- The meaning of eating and the home as ritual space / Sharon Parks -- 7. Our bodies are sacred -- Are women's bodies sacred? Listening to the yes's and no's / Emily Erwin Culpepper -- "We are where God is" : sacred dimensions of battered women's lives / Laureen E. Smith -- In praise of Aphrodite : sexuality as sacred / Carol P. Christ -- Body-decisions as sacred / Louise Hardin Bray -- Our bodies are still ourselves as we age, and they are still sacred / Jeanne Brooks Carritt -- Why do the birds sing? Healing after trauma / Elizabeth Dodson Gray.