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The dance of the dissident daughter : a woman's journey from Christian tradition to the sacred feminine / Sue Monk Kidd.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: [San Francisco, Calif.] : HarperSanFrancisco, c2002.Edition: 1st pbk. edDescription: xii, 253 p. ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 0061144908 (pbk.)
  • 9780061144905 (pbk.)
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Contents:
Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part One : Awakening : "That's how I like to see a woman" -- Conceiving the feminine self -- The deep sleep -- The nest of yellow leaves -- The feminine wound ; Faces of daughterhood -- Forming a feminist critique -- Trusting your own feminist source -- Part Two : Initiation : The unexpected gorge ; Opening the feminine divine -- Crossing the threshold -- A guiding feminine myth -- Part Three : Grounding : Encountering goddess -- Why a feminine form for the formless? -- The coming of herself -- The symbol functions -- The dawn of eminine spiritual consiousness -- Healing the feminine wound -- Transfiguring anger -- Forgiveness -- The dance of dissidence -- Part Four : Empowerment : Cohesion of the female soul -- Authentic power -- Buffalo medicine -- Voicing the soul -- Finding inner authority -- Embodying sacred feminine experience -- Daughters, the women are speaking -- The story -- Notes -- Permissions -- Plus : A conversation with Sue Monk Kidd ; The dance of the dissident daughter study guide.
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Adult Book Adult Book Dr. James Carlson Library Biography Kidd, S. K46 Available 33111005806514
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

"A masterpiece of women's wisdom."--Christiane Northrup, M.D.

"The journey to capture her feminine soul and live authentically . . . makes a fascinating, well-researched and well-written story."--Publishers Weekly

In celebration of the twentieth anniversary of its publication, a newly reissued edition of the bestselling author's classic work of feminine spiritual discovery, with a new introduction by the author.

"I was amazed to find that I had no idea how to unfold my spiritual life in a feminine way. I was surprised, and, in fact, a little terrified, when I found myself in the middle of a feminist spiritual reawakening."--Sue Monk Kidd

For years, Sue Monk Kidd was a conventionally religious woman. Then, in the late 1980s, she experienced an unexpected awakening, and began a journey toward a feminine spirituality. With the exceptional storytelling skills that have helped make her name, Kidd tells her very personal story of the fear, anger, healing, and freedom she experienced on the path toward the wholeness that many women have lost in the church.

From a jarring encounter with sexism in a suburban drugstore, to monastery retreats and to rituals in the caves of Crete, she reveals a new level of feminine spiritual consciousness for all women--one that retains a meaningful connection with the "deep song of Christianity," embraces the sacredness of ordinary women's experience, and has the power to transform in the most positive ways every fundamental relationship in a woman's life--her marriage, her career, and her religion.

Originally published in hardcover in 1996.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-236).

Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part One : Awakening : "That's how I like to see a woman" -- Conceiving the feminine self -- The deep sleep -- The nest of yellow leaves -- The feminine wound ; Faces of daughterhood -- Forming a feminist critique -- Trusting your own feminist source -- Part Two : Initiation : The unexpected gorge ; Opening the feminine divine -- Crossing the threshold -- A guiding feminine myth -- Part Three : Grounding : Encountering goddess -- Why a feminine form for the formless? -- The coming of herself -- The symbol functions -- The dawn of eminine spiritual consiousness -- Healing the feminine wound -- Transfiguring anger -- Forgiveness -- The dance of dissidence -- Part Four : Empowerment : Cohesion of the female soul -- Authentic power -- Buffalo medicine -- Voicing the soul -- Finding inner authority -- Embodying sacred feminine experience -- Daughters, the women are speaking -- The story -- Notes -- Permissions -- Plus : A conversation with Sue Monk Kidd ; The dance of the dissident daughter study guide.

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