| Description |
1 online resource (199 p.) |
| Contents |
Intro -- Endorsements -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: The Waters of Oblivion -- The Title -- Divining Woman -- Reclaiming Female Culture and Genealogy -- The Waterpourer's Lineage -- Female Language and Symbolic -- Woman's Sexual Spirit and Spiritual Transcendence -- Bibliography -- Part 1: Methodology -- 1. Beyond Their Horizon -- Social Ecology and Research Boundaries -- Women's Innate Essence versus Patriarchal Construct -- Speaking (as) Woman -- Parler Femme -- Feminist Epistemology and Multi-Method Research |
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A Creative Methodology -- Virginia Woolf -- Luce Irigaray -- Undertaking the Quest -- Deconstructing Begins: Psyche, Aphrodite and Cassandra -- Psyche Speaks -- Meeting Aphrodite -- The Four Tasks (Research Tools) -- Task One: Sorting the Seeds -- Task Two: Gathering the Golden Fleece -- Task Three: Filling the Crystal Flask -- Task Four: Go to the Underworld -- Ask Persephone for a Cask of Her Beauty Ointment Along with Her Mirror and Return It to Aphrodite -- Cassandra Speaks -- The Misogynistic Creation of Pandora -- The Patriarchal Creation of Eve -- Psyche Confers with Baglady -- Note |
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Gnosis and the Spread of Christianity -- Christian Theology on Woman's Subordinate Position to Man -- Virgin Mary, the Madonna, Our Lady -- The Immaculate Conception -- The Genealogy of Mary and Joseph -- The Church Father's Doctrine on Woman -- Powerful Wisdom and Tenacity of Christian Women -- Women Mystics and Visionaries -- Hildegard von Bingen -- Julian of Norwich -- Baglady Travels Abroad -- The Good Wife of Bath -- Jeanne D'Arc -- Mary Magdalene -- Women in Present-Day Anglican and Catholic Ministries -- Sister Jacinta Shailer -- Baglady and Psyche Reflect on the Quest So Far |
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Pandora the Earth Mother and Eve as the Wise Woman -- Bibliography -- 4. Sky Dancing Woman -- Buddhist Women Challenging Patriarchal Power -- To Begin: Who Was Buddha? -- The Four Noble Truths -- The Eightfold Path -- Mahaprajapati and the First Women to Follow Buddha -- The Three Turnings of the Wheel -- Vajrayana Buddhism in Tibet -- A Path to Transformation: Vajrayana Meets Feminism -- Prajnaparamita -- Primordial Female Buddha -- Vajrayogini -- The Co-Emergent Dakini -- Tara -- The Spiritual Mother of Tibet -- Green Tara -- The Great Helper -- Yeshe Tsogyal -- The Guru Dakini |
| Summary |
Divining Woman takes the reader on an historical journey from the rise of patriarchy and its grand narratives that defined the place of women in western culture and which still resonate today |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography -- Part 2: The Quest -- 2. Walking Woman's Path -- Divining a Mother/Daughter Relationship -- Baglady as Everywoman -- Edith Cavell -- Meeting My Sister in Norfolk -- Boadicea -- Celtic Spiritual Beliefs, Rites and Practices -- The Nemeton -- The Cauldron -- Magical Properties of Water -- Nature as a Guide -- Celtic Materials, Jewellery and Artefacts -- The Imagined Passing of Boadicea -- Audacia Muliebris -- Celtic Culture and Gnostic Christianity -- Etheldreda -- Etheldreda Speaks -- The Death and Sainthood of Etheldreda -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 3. Dogma and the Dance of Women |
| Notes |
The Dakini Connection with Feminist Praxis |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781040016879 |
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1040016871 |
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