 It has been translated into French as "Quand Dieu était femme" (SCE-Services Complets d'Edition, Québec, Canada) in 1978, into Dutch as "Eens was God als Vrouw belichaamd – De onderdrukking van de riten van de vrouw" in 1979, into German as "Als Gott eine Frau war" in 1989 and into Italian as "Quando Dio era una donna" in 2011.Stone spent approximately ten years engaged in research of the lesser-known, sometimes hidden depictions of the Sacred Feminine, from European and Middle Eastern societies, in preparation to complete this work.In the book, she describes these archetypal reflections of women as leaders, sacred entities and benevolent matriarchs, and also weaves them into a larger picture of how our modern societies grew to the present imbalanced state.