All of the major world religions deprecate women to some degree.

Sacred Texts: Women and Religion:

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Feminism

 Vindication of the Rights Of Woman
by Mary Wollstonecraft [1792] 
 The Subjection of Women
by John Stuart Mill [1869] 
 Clothed With The Sun
by Anna Kingsford [1889]
The mystical visions of a pioneering woman occultist. 
 The Garden of Eden; or The Paradise Lost & Found
by Victoria Claflin Woodhull [1890]
A radical reinterpretation of Eden as an allegory for the human body. 
 Woman, Church, and State
by Matilda Joslyn Gage [1893]
One of the earliest feminist historians. 
 The Woman's Bible
by Elizabeth Cady Stanton [1895]
19th Century feminists critique the Bible. 
 Woman and the New Race
by Margaret Sanger [1920]
The pioneering birth control activist. 
 Roe v. Wade
US Supreme Court Decision [1973]
The highest court in the US affirms a woman's right to control her body. 
 Abortion in the Bible
by J.B. Hare [2008]
Suprisingly, there is no mention of medical abortion in the Bible. 

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Women Warriors and Heroines

 The Amazons
by Guy Cadogan Rothery [1910]
Behind the global myths of woman warriors. 
 Religious Cults Associated with the Amazons
by Florence Mary Bennett [1912]
Evidence for the Amazons and ancient goddess worship in Greece and Asia Minor. 
 Lives of the Greek Heroines
by Louisa Menzies [1880] 
 The Authoress of the Odyssey, by Samuel Butler [1922]
Did a woman write one of the greatest epic poems of all time? 
 The Ancient Irish Goddess of War
by WM Hennessey, Revue Celtique, Vol. 1, pp. 27-55 [1870]

Goddesses

 The Syrian Goddess
Lucian of Samosata, tr. by Herbert A. Strong [1913]
Lucian's hair-raising description of ancient Goddess worship.Ancient Near East 
 The Burden of Isis
by James Teackle Dennis [1910]
Hymns to Isis, a primary Ancient Egyptian Goddess. Ancient Egyptian 

 Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes
by W.D. Westervelt [1916]
Read about the powerful Hawaiian Fire Goddess Pele, who lives in a volcano and surfs on lava. A old Hawaiian saying: "never mistreat an old woman, she might be Pele in disguise".Polynesian

 Hymn to Demeter
Homer, tr. Hugh G. Evelyn-White [1914]
A central Goddess myth, the canonical hymn of the Eleusinian initiatory mysteries. Classical Pagan 
 The Poems of Sappho
Classical Pagan; particularly her Hymn to Aphrodite 
 Descent of Ishtar into the Lower World.
Ancient Near East 
 Aradia, Gospel of the Witches
tr. by Charles G. Leland [1899]
The sole written evidence for Dianic worship into modern times. Of controversial authorship. Late European Wiccan 
 Hymn to the All-Mother
from Rig Veda Americanus (Aztec Hymns), by Daniel G. Brinton [1890]
Aztec