Subtitle:
Re-visioning the myth of Demeter and Persephone for our time
Editor:
Downing, Christine 1931-
Translators:
Rice, David G.
Strambaugh, John E.
Strambaugh, John E.
Place of Publication:
Boston, Massachusetts
Publisher:
Shambhala Publications, Inc.
Copyright Date:
1994
ISBN / SBN / ISSN:
0877739374
Source:
From the collection of Katherine N. Otagiri
Media Type:
Print (Non-Serial)
Media Sub-type:
Book
LoC Call Number:
BL 820 .C5 L66 1994
Accession Number:
049096
Keyword Subject Headings:
Demeter (Greek deity)
Persephone (Greek deity)
Mythology, Greek--Psychological aspects
Mothers and daughters
Women--Psychology
Persephone (Greek deity)
Mythology, Greek--Psychological aspects
Mothers and daughters
Women--Psychology
User Notes:
Paperbound; 301pp. with bibliographical references in end notes and suggested reading.
Contents:
"Introduction" / Christine Downing
Part One: The ancient sources
"The Greek literary tradition" / Christine Downing
"The Homeric 'Hymn to Demeter'" / Tr. by David G. Rice and John E. Stambaugh
"Art and ritual" / Christine Downing
Part Two: Precursors of contemporary perspectives
"Mythography and depth psychology" / Christine Downing
"The woman's experience of herself and Eleusinian mysteries" / Erich Neumann
"Women's revisionings" / Christine Downing
"Demeter" / Hilda Doolittle (a/k/a "H.D.")
"Persephone" / Meridel Le Seur
Part Three: Contemporary women's retellings
"A richly filled cornucopia" / Christine Downing
"In search of a prepatriarchal version" / Christine Downing
"The myth of Demeter and Persephone" / Charlene Spretnak
"The mother-daughter bond" / Christine Downing
"Three poems" / Herta Rosenblatt
"The crux" / Alma Luz Villanueva
"Learning from my mother dying" / Carol P. Christ
"Love among women" / Christine Downing
"The return to the mother" / Christine Downing
"Rape and patriarchal violation" / Christine Downing
"Demeter, Persephone, and the pedagogy of archetypal empowerment" / Annis Pratt
"The two goddesses" / River Malcolm
"Puberty rites" / Christine Downing
"The rape of Persephone" / Bruce Lincoln
"Cycles of becoming" / Vera Bushe
"Midlife passage" / Christine Downing
"Mother and daughter mysteries" / Helen Luke
"The rape of Demeter/Persephone and neurosis" / Patricia Berry
"Demeter's folly: Experiencing loss in middle life" / Polly Young-Eisendrath
"Persephone in Hades" / Christine Downing
"Hekate, Rhea, and Baubo: Perspectives on menopause" / Christine Downing
"Glimpses of a postpatriarchal world" / Christine Downing
"Sightings of maternal rage and paternal love in the Homeric 'Hymn to Demeter'" /
Naomi R. Goldenberg
"Hades speaks" / John Daughters
"Concern for the Earth" / Christine Downing
"An ecofeminist perspective on the Demeter-Persephone Myth" / Gloria Feman Orenstein
"A new telling of the myth" / Christine Downing
"Long journey home" / Laura Simms
