The Woman And The Myth

Author : Jenny Williamson,Genn McMenemy
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2023-02-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781507219416

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Women of Myth by Jenny Williamson,Genn McMenemy Pdf

"Get inspired with 50 fascinating stories of powerful female figures from mythologies around the world. From heroines and deities to leaders and mythical creatures, this collection explores figures of myth who can inspire modern readers with their ability to shape our culture with the stories of their power, wisdom, compassion, and cunning. Featured characters include: Atalanta (Greek heroine and huntress who killed the Caledonia Boar and joined the Argonauts); Sky-Woman (the first woman in Iroquois myth who fell through a hole in the sky and into our world); Clídna (Queen of the Banshees in Irish legend); and La Llorona (a ghostly woman in Mexican folklore who wanders the waterfront). Celebrate these game-changing, attention-worthy female characters with this collection of engaging tales"--

Author : Angela M. Sells
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-25
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781438465791

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Sabina Spielrein by Angela M. Sells Pdf

Explores the life and work of psychoanalyst Sabina Spielrein through a feminist and mytho-poetic lens. Long stigmatized as Carl Jung’s hysterical mistress, Sabina Spielrein (1885–1942) was in fact a key figure in the history of psychoanalytic thought. Born into a Russian Jewish family, she was institutionalized at nineteen in Zurich and became Jung’s patient. Spielrein went on to earn a doctorate in psychiatry, practiced for over thirty years, and published numerous papers, until her untimely death in the Holocaust. She developed innovative theories of female sexuality, child development, mythic archetypes in the human unconscious, and the death instinct. In Sabina Spielrein, Angela M. Sells examines Spielrein’s life and work from a feminist and mytho-poetic perspective. Drawing on newly translated diaries, papers, and correspondence with Jung and Sigmund Freud, Sells challenges the suppression of Spielrein’s ideas and shows her to be a significant thinker in her own right. “This book is a major, perhaps a definitive, contribution to the literature. Angela Sells documents both the demonization of a great psychoanalytic theorist—mainly because she was a woman and worse still, was once Carl Jung’s patient. The book’s greatest strength is its power to enlighten and inform and in so doing, to arouse indignation and amazement at Spielrein’s brilliance and tenacity.” — Phyllis Chesler, author of Women and Madness “This is a pathbreaking piece of research that not only begins to rehabilitate the reputation of a woman patient of Jung’s, but also suggests that Spielrein was an important contributor in her own right to the beginnings of psychoanalysis.” — Carol P. Christ, coauthor of Goddess and God in the World: Conversations in Embodied Theology

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Archetype (Psychology) in literature
ISBN : 9780271039541

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Machine, Metaphor, and the Writer: A Jungian View by Anonim Pdf

Author : Naomi Wolf
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2009-03-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780061969942

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The Beauty Myth by Naomi Wolf Pdf

The bestselling classic that redefined our view of the relationship between beauty and female identity. In today's world, women have more power, legal recognition, and professional success than ever before. Alongside the evident progress of the women's movement, however, writer and journalist Naomi Wolf is troubled by a different kind of social control, which, she argues, may prove just as restrictive as the traditional image of homemaker and wife. It's the beauty myth, an obsession with physical perfection that traps the modern woman in an endless spiral of hope, self-consciousness, and self-hatred as she tries to fulfill society's impossible definition of "the flawless beauty."

Author : Bettina Liebowitz Knapp
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0791431630

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Women in Myth by Bettina Liebowitz Knapp Pdf

Explores the role of women in ancient societies through analysis of the myths from nine cultures: Egyptian, Sumerian, Greek, Roman, Hebrew, Christian, Hindu, Japanese, and Chinese.

Author : Mary Lefkowitz
Publisher : Bristol Classical Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2007-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0715635654

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Women in Greek Myth by Mary Lefkowitz Pdf

In the first edition of "Women in Greek Myth," published in 1986, Mary R. Lefkowitz convincingly challenged narrow, ideological interpretations of the roles of female characters in Greek mythology. Where some scholars saw the Amazons as the last remnant of a forgotten matriarchy, Clytemnestra as a frustrated individualist, and Antigone as an oppressed revolutionary, Lefkowitz argued that such views were justified neither by the myths themselves nor by the relevant documentary evidence. Concentrating on those aspects of women's experience most often misunderstood - life apart from men, marriage, influence in politics, self-sacrifice and martyrdom, misogyny - she presented a far less negative account of the role of Greek women, both ordinary and extraordinary, as manifested in the central works of Greek literature. This updated and expanded edition includes six new chapters on such topics as heroic women in Greek epic, seduction and rape in Greek myth, and the parts played by women in ancient rites and festivals.Revisiting the original chapters as well to incorporate two decades of more recent scholarship, Lefkowitz again shows that what Greek men both feared and valued in women was not their sexuality but their intelligence.

Author : Elinor Cleghorn
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780593182963

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Unwell Women by Elinor Cleghorn Pdf

A trailblazing, conversation-starting history of women’s health—from the earliest medical ideas about women’s illnesses to hormones and autoimmune diseases—brought together in a fascinating sweeping narrative. Elinor Cleghorn became an unwell woman ten years ago. She was diagnosed with an autoimmune disease after a long period of being told her symptoms were anything from psychosomatic to a possible pregnancy. As Elinor learned to live with her unpredictable disease she turned to history for answers, and found an enraging legacy of suffering, mystification, and misdiagnosis. In Unwell Women, Elinor Cleghorn traces the almost unbelievable history of how medicine has failed women by treating their bodies as alien and other, often to perilous effect. The result is an authoritative and groundbreaking exploration of the relationship between women and medical practice, from the "wandering womb" of Ancient Greece to the rise of witch trials across Europe, and from the dawn of hysteria as a catchall for difficult-to-diagnose disorders to the first forays into autoimmunity and the shifting understanding of hormones, menstruation, menopause, and conditions like endometriosis. Packed with character studies and case histories of women who have suffered, challenged, and rewritten medical orthodoxy—and the men who controlled their fate—this is a revolutionary examination of the relationship between women, illness, and medicine. With these case histories, Elinor pays homage to the women who suffered so strides could be made, and shows how being unwell has become normalized in society and culture, where women have long been distrusted as reliable narrators of their own bodies and pain. But the time for real change is long overdue: answers reside in the body, in the testimonies of unwell women—and their lives depend on medicine learning to listen.

Author : Santo L Arico
Publisher : Southern Illinois University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2010-08-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0809330059

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Oriana Fallaci by Santo L Arico Pdf

Internationally acclaimed as a journalist, war correspondent, interviewer, and novelist, Oriana Fallaci’s public persona reached almost mythic proportions. It is a myth Fallaci herself created, according to Santo L. Aricò, who probes the psychological forces that motivated one of the twentieth century’s most famous and successful women writers. Using his own extensive interviews with the writer, Aricò maps out Fallaci’s journey through life, paying particular attention to her ongoing and painstaking attempts to establish her own mythical status. He first examines her career as a literary journalist, emphasizing the high quality of her writing. From there, he concentrates on how Fallaci’s personal image began to emerge in her writings, as well as the way in which, through her powerful narratives, she catapulted herself into the public eye as her own main character.

Author : Margaret Fuller,Bell Gale Chevigny
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1555531814

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The Woman and the Myth by Margaret Fuller,Bell Gale Chevigny Pdf

This new edition of this classic and influential book features recently recovered writings about Fuller by her contemporaries and additional selections from Fuller's writings, including previously unpublished excerpts from her journals.

Author : Nina Auerbach
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0674954076

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Woman and the Demon by Nina Auerbach Pdf

Analyzes the Victorian conception of both demonic and divine nature of women in Victorian art and literature.

Author : Susan Douglas,Meredith Michaels
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2005-02-08
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0743260465

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The Mommy Myth by Susan Douglas,Meredith Michaels Pdf

Now in paperback, the provocative book that has ignited fiery debate and created a dialogue among women about the state of motherhood today. In THE MOMMY MYTH, Susan Douglas and Meredith Michaels turn their 'sharp, funny, and fed-up prose' (San Diego Union Tribune) toward the cult of the new momism, a trend in Western culture that suggests that women can only achieve contentment through the perfection of mothering. Even so, the standards of this ideal remain out of reach, no matter how hard women try to 'have it all'. THE MOMMY MYTH skilfully maps the distance travelled from the days when THE FEMININE MYSTIQUE demanded more for women than keeping house and raising children, to today's not-so-subtle pressure to reverse this trend. A must-read for every woman.

Author : Joan E. Childs
Publisher : HCI
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 1558743154

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The Myth of the Maiden by Joan E. Childs Pdf

Joan Childs shows how women of all ages can transform their lives. The Myth of the Maiden explores the evolution of women from helpless maidens to dragonslayers.

Author : Jane Professor Ussher,Jane M. Ussher
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2011-03-28
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781136656323

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The Madness of Women by Jane Professor Ussher,Jane M. Ussher Pdf

Nominated for the 2012 Distinguished Publication Award of the Association for Women in Psychology! Why are women more likely to be positioned or diagnosed as mad than men? If madness is a social construction, a gendered label, as many feminist critics would argue, how can we understand and explain women's prolonged misery and distress? In turn, can we prevent or treat women’s distress, in a non-pathologising women centred way? The Madness of Women addresses these questions through a rigorous exploration of the myths and realities of women's madness. Drawing on academic and clinical experience, including case studies and in-depth interviews, as well as on the now extensive critical literature in the field of mental health, Jane Ussher presents a critical multifactorial analysis of women's madness that both addresses the notion that madness is a myth, and yet acknowledges the reality and multiple causes of women's distress. Topics include: The genealogy of women’s madness – incarceration of difficult or deviant women Regulation through treatment Deconstrucing depression, PMS and borderline personality disorder Madness as a reasonable response to objectification and sexual violence Women’s narratives of resistance This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of psychology, gender studies, sociology, women's studies, cultural studies, counselling and nursing.

Author : Margaret Fuller,Bell Gale Chevigny
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Authors, American
ISBN : UVA:X000094981

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The Woman and the Myth by Margaret Fuller,Bell Gale Chevigny Pdf

This new edition of this classic and influential book features recently recovered writings about Fuller by her contemporaries and additional selections from Fuller's writings, including previously unpublished excerpts from her journals.

Author : Jenny Williamson,Genn McMenemy
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2023-02-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781507219423

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Women of Myth by Jenny Williamson,Genn McMenemy Pdf

Uncover the fascinating and complex women from mythology and folklore with this collection of stories profiling powerful goddesses, mighty queens, and legendary creatures. Get inspired with 50 fascinating stories of powerful female figures from mythologies around the world. From heroines and deities to leaders and mythical creatures, this collection explores figures of myth who can inspire modern readers with their ability to shape our culture with the stories of their power, wisdom, compassion, and cunning. Featured characters include: -Atalanta: Greek heroine and huntress who killed the Caledonia Boar and joined the Argonauts -Sky-Woman: The first woman in Iroquois myth who fell through a hole in the sky and into our world -Pele: Hawaiian volcano goddess -Clídna: Queen of the Banshees in Irish legend -La Llorona: A ghostly woman in Mexican folklore who wanders the waterfront Celebrate these game-changing, attention-worthy female characters with this collection of engaging tales.