Includes index.

Contents:

I. Heresies --Goddess : towards a liturgy for survival / Linda Hurcombe --The women dance naked in jail / Starhawk --Inner landscape : outer landscape / Heather Formaini --Esprit de corps / Aileen La Tourette --When they burned us / Lauren Liebling --Water women / Alla Bozarth-Campbell --II. First person plural --Bad weather / Bryony Dahl --Friends in deed / Mary E. Hunt --A time to refrain from embracing / Polly Blue --The lion in the marble : choosing celibacy as a nun / Hannah Ward --III. Body theology --Performance / Polly Blue --A womb-centered life / Una Kroll --Nothing is sacred, all is profane : lesbian identity and religious purpose / Elaine Willis --Passionate prayer : masochistic images in women's experience / Sara Maitland --Paragory / Linda Hurcombe --IV. The language of feeling --Inner anatomy of a birth / Le�onie Caldecott --On the edge (1985) / Susan Griffin --Lammas Babe : ten days of healing / Jenjoy Silverbirch Strongbody Clevermind (Linda Hurcombe and Polly Blue) --Let your right brain know / Linda Hurcombe --V. Feminist theology --from Casting a new circle / Mykel Johnson --A jealous God? Towards a feminist model of monogamy / Susan Dowell --Asceticism and feminism : strange bedmates? / Rosemary Radford Ruether --Sexual justice and the 'righteousness of God' / Sheila Briggs --Prayer for continuation / Susan Griffin.