To be a woman

Paperback; 279 pp., including bibliographical references. Essays include: The unfolding feminine principle in human consciousness / Sukie Colegrave Social transformation and the feminine : from domination to partnership / Riane Eisler From the liberation of women to the liberation of the feminine / Robert M. Stein The girl within : touchstone for women's identity Emily Hancock -- In the laps of the mothers / Nan Hunt How the father's daughter found her mother / Lynda W. Schmidt Mother of mothers : the power of the grandmother in the female psyche / Naomi Ruth Lowinsky Conscious femininity : mother, virgin, crone / Marion Woodman The Madonna / Kathleen Riordan Speeth Redeeming the father and finding feminine spirit / Linda Schierse Leonard Developing the animus as a step toward the new feminine consciousness / Manisha Roy The breakdown of animus identification in finding the feminine / Jane Wheelwright Rethinking feminism, the animus, and the feminine / Polly Young-Eisendrath Thesmophoria : a women's fertility ritual / Betty De Shong Meador Re-vamping the world : on the return of the holy prostitute / Deena Metzger Beyond blood : women of that certain age / Elizabeth S. Strahan The gifts from reclaiming goddess history / Merlin Stone Athena, Artemis, Aphrodite, and initiation into the conscious feminine / Jean Shinoda Bolen Finding the lost feminine in the Judeo-Christian tradition / June Singer Descent to the dark goddess / Sylvia Brinton Perera The personal and cultural emergence of yang-femininity / Genia Pauli Haddon The future of the feminine / Edward C. Whitmont Femininity regained / Robert A. Johnson