Gender & Religion Nominated for Award

I am pleased to announce some exciting news. My book, Gender and Religion: The Dark Side of Scripture, has been named as a finalist for the Eric Hoffer/Montaigne Medal Award, honoring the most thought-provoking books, and is eligible to win the Hoffer Grand Prize.

Each year, the Eric Hoffer Award for books presents the Montaigne Medal to the most thought-provoking title(s). These are books that either illuminate, progress, or redirect thought. The Montaigne Medal is given in honor of the great French philosopher Michel de Montaigne, who influenced people such as William Shakespeare, René Descartes, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Friedrich Nietzsche, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Eric Hoffer. This is an additional distinction beneath the Eric Hoffer Award umbrella.

"I felt all the time he was writing about me. He knew my innermost thoughts."

-Eric Hoffer, from his memoir, Truth Imagined

 Check this blog for future events regarding the Gender & Religion book coming this Spring.

---- Barbara Crandall M.D., UCLA geneticist, is author of Gender and Religion, a work of non-fiction that explains the effect religions have had on women's progress.

The second edition of my book Gender and Religion: the Dark Side of Scripture was published earlier this year and is now available from Amazon. Why a second edition? It seemed to me an appropriate time in view of threats to women around the world. In the US, the present political campaign is a good reminder that we could easily lose programs important to women.

Barbara Crandall M.D., UCLA geneticist, is the author of Gender and Religion, a work of non-fiction that explains the effect religions have had on women's progress.