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Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Language
English
Description
The author's premise is that within every woman there lives a powerful force, filled with good instincts, passionate creativity, and ageless knowing. She is the Wild Woman, who represents the instinctual nature of women. Here, the author unfolds rich intercultural myths, fairy tales, folk tales, and stories to help women reconnect with the fierce, healthy, visionary attributes of this instinctual nature. Through these stories and commentaries, the...
Author
Publisher
White Lion Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
From feminist fairies to bloodsucking temptresses, half-human harpies and protective Vodou goddesses, these are women who go beyond long-haired, smiling stereotypes. Their stories are so powerful, so entrancing, that they have survived for millennia. Lovingly retold and updated, Kate Hodges places each heroine, rebel and provocateur firmly at the centre of their own narrative. Players include:
Bewitching, banished Circe, an introvert famed and feared...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
"Throughout this illuminating book, Gould delves into the deeper meanings behind fairy tales and myths - helping you to understand not only what your choice of fairy tale may mean for you, but also what you need to be doing during the three main stages of development: maiden, matron, and crone."--BOOK JACKET.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
It began for our narrator forty years ago when the family lodger stole their car and committed suicide in it, stirring up ancient powers best left undisturbed. Dark creatures from beyond the world are on the loose, and it will take everything our narrator has just to stay alive: there is primal horror here, and menace unleashed-- within his family and from the forces that have gathered to destroy it. His only defense is three women on a farm at the...
Author
Publisher
Quirk Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Ella Louise has lived in the woods surrounding Pilot's Creek, Virginia, for nearly a decade. Publicily, she and her daughter Jessica are shunned by their upper-crust family and the Pilot's Creek residents. Privately, desperate townspeople visit her apothecary for a cure to what ails them-until Ella Louise is blamed for the death of a prominent customer. Accused of witchcraft, both mother and daughter are burned at the stake in the middle of the night....
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
1995
Language
English
Description
In this study of the history and meaning of fairy tales, the author looks at storytelling in art and legend - from the prophesying enchantress who lures men to false paradise, to jolly Mother Goose with her masqueraders in the real world. Why are storytellers so often women, and how does that affect the status of fairy talees? Are they a source of wisdom or a misleading temptation to indulge in romancing?
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"World-renowned folklorist Maria Tatar reveals an astonishing but long buried history of heroines, taking us from Cassandra and Scheherazade to Nancy Drew and Wonder Woman. How do we explain our newfound cultural investment in empathy and social justice? For decades, Joseph Campbell had defined our cultural aspirations in The Hero with a Thousand Faces, emphasizing the value of seeking glory and earning immortality. His work became the playbook for...
16) Spider Woman's granddaughters: traditional tales and contemporary writing by Native American women
Publisher
Fawcett Columbine
Pub. Date
1990, c1989
Language
English
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Nine classic fairy tales set in modern, magical landscapes and retold with a twist.
Nine classic fairy tales set in modern, magical landscapes and retold with a twist. Some of the fairy tales that these stories are based on are easily recognizable and others are not. The fairy tales used include Snow White, Thumbelina, Cinderella, Rose Red and Rose White, Sleeping Beauty, Little Red Riding Hood, the Snow Queen, and Beauty and the Beast.
Author
Series
Publisher
Sounds True
Pub. Date
p2012
Language
English
Description
Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés Presents Volume Five of the Dangerous Old Woman Series"What makes an elder, a heartfelt spirit, a clear mind, a talented heart, one who is young while old and old while young, an activist for the Soul? Is it formulae, schemas, lexicons? It could be. But also, and often more so, I think it is very like the flowering of the trees in the forest, as we gather more years: we straggle and stride onward in our better learned ways...
Author
Series
Publisher
Sounds True
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Volume Four of the Dangerous Old Woman Series with Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés"What makes talent bloom? Ask what makes a tree blossom. They are the same. It is not unfathomable. It only takes concentration. Concentration of energies is what makes a tree flower. Not bigger, not faster, not taking up more space. Rather, less space. Density. Pressure in hard places. Often, in the dark. Relentlessly. Freely. For as long as it takes. Hold faith, a gestation...