Title: Divergence by a feminist Jewish woman.
Review: I first read the original edition many years ago when I was just discovering Wicca and it was all the rage. Starhawk's Spiral Dance inspired a huge number of young women to become Wiccan but with a price. Wicca is a religion of harmony and balance between God and Goddess, it is not a "Goddess religion." Nor is there a real place in Wicca for feminist men-bashing and separatist misandry. For two decades many people believed that Wicca was a "women's spirituality" rather than a balanced and harmonious religion for everyone. What was gained by the beautiful writing and poetic mysticism is lost in the divisiveness and misdirection. The original edition of Spiral Dance wasn't as polarized and hateful to men as later works by Starhawk or the more recent revisions of the Dance. If one can get past her misandry she has a lot of creative vision. It isn't another spell book, and that part is good. But in the end she has never given up being Jewish.
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