Beverly Lanzetta is Research Associate at the Southwest Institute for Research on Women, at the University of Arizona Tucson. She is the author of Emerging Heart (2007, 978-0-8006- 3893-1) and Radical Wisdom (2005, 978-0-8006-3698-2).
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Acknowledgments Prologue: Low Places Where Grace Flows In Part One: Theory and Historical Background Via Feminina and the Un-saying of "Woman" Feminism and Mysticism: Foundations Goddesses, Mother Jesus, and the Feminine Divine Contemplative Feminism: Transforming the Spiritual Journey Part Two: Women Mystics of Medieval Europe Women Mystics and a Feminism of the Inner Way Julian and Teresa as Cartographers of the Soul The Soul of Woman and the Dark Night of the Feminine Subversion in Contemplation: Resistance, Resilency, and Dignification Part Three: Embodied and Engaged Contemplation Women's Body as Mystical Text Seeing Through God's Eyes: Women's Spiritual Rights Love of the World: An Ethic of Ultimate Concern Epilogue: Hymn to Hagia Sophia Notes Bibliography Index
"Lanzetta's Radical Wisdom is a feminist revisioning of mysticism. Going beyond both the positive and the negative paths of the mystical journey, Lanzetta proposes a 'via feminina' that can heal the deep spiritual wounds of patriarchy and transform women's inner and outer humanity in holistic relation to others--men and women, God and the cosmos."