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What Is Enlightenment? Content Directory
Media Files
Helen Fisher All About Eve
Helen Fisher, popular author (The First Sex, Why We Love) and media savvy anthropologist, speaks with WIE editor Jessica Roemischer about why women love to sleep with men at the top.
Cynthia Bourgeault A Liberation Beyond Gender
Cynthia Bourgeault, Episcopal priest and hermit, author of
Love Is Stronger Than Death, and internationally
recognized teacher of contemplative prayer, speaks with
WIE's Jessica Roemischer about the ultimate liberation
of women—beyond identification with gender itself.
Helen LaKelly Hunt Spirit Unleashed: The Passion of 19th-Century Feminists
Philanthropist Helen LaKelly Hunt speaks with WIE senior editor Elizabeth Debold about the spiritual motivations of the 19th century American feminists who courageously stepped outside their prescribed roles to launch a movement that would eventually end slavery and give women the right to vote.
Elizabeth Debold Where Are the Women?
A Voices from the Edge event
Join Dr. Elizabeth Debold, founding member of the Harvard
Project on Women's Psychology and Girls' Development, and
What Is Enlightenment? senior editor, in a bold call
for a new women's liberation.
Donna Zajonc Igniting a Spark of Power
Donna Zajonc traveled to North Africa to teach sixty Muslim women how to develop political skills, cultivate constituencies, and organize coalitions. Her part hopeful, part cautionary tale of modern Muslim women emerging from oppression provides a fascinating glimpse into the complex politics of women’s liberation.
Articles
Where Are the Women?
Noting the surprising absence of women at the leading
edge of cultural change, Debold asks what happened to the
revolution that women started in the last half of the 20th
century—and calls women to once again aspire to transform
the status quo.
Issue 29
Igniting a Spark of Power
The politics of women's liberation in North Africa
Exploring the politics of women's liberation in North Africa. An interview with Donna Zajonc.
Issue 27
Women Who Sleep with Their Gurus ... and Why They Love It
There's a lot more to guru sex scandals than innocent victims fallen prey to unscrupulous teachers. Whether they're after wealth, security, social status, or enlightenment, women love men at the top, and they have for four million years.
Issue 26
Liberation Without a Face
A feminist activist and author interviews her male spiritual teacher about why women's liberation and spiritual liberation have nothing to do with each other.
Issue 16
I'm Not Here to Audition!
“'Mastery' implies that there's something under you-usually a slave. It's the mastery of the world that's gotten us into the mess we're in.” An outrageous, outspoken evangelist of health and fitness speaks out on enlightenment, women's empowerment and having the guts to tell the truth.
Issue 15
Why Women Don't Like the Word "Mastery"
“A literary agent once told me that if she put a call out for autobiographies, the next day she would have fifty on her desk from men and none from women.” A developmental psychologist shares some intriguing insights on why getting women to speak about self-mastery can be a difficult task.
Issue 15
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