Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and InstitutionBantam Books, 1977 - 328 pages |
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Page 91
... mystery of her motherhood have been for the male no less impressive imprinting forces than the fears and mysteries of the world of nature itself . " 20 Obviously there was a very ancient and powerful tangle of relationships between a ...
... mystery of her motherhood have been for the male no less impressive imprinting forces than the fears and mysteries of the world of nature itself . " 20 Obviously there was a very ancient and powerful tangle of relationships between a ...
Page 241
... Mysteries : " We have been given a reason not only to live in joy but also to die with better hope . " The role played by the Mysteries of Eleusis in ancient spirituality has been compared to that of the passion and resurrec- tion of ...
... Mysteries : " We have been given a reason not only to live in joy but also to die with better hope . " The role played by the Mysteries of Eleusis in ancient spirituality has been compared to that of the passion and resurrec- tion of ...
Page 242
... Mysteries was this reintegration of death and birth , at a time when patriarchal splitting may have seemed about to ... Mysteries she became much more : " she herself in grief and mourning entered upon the path of initiation and turned ...
... Mysteries was this reintegration of death and birth , at a time when patriarchal splitting may have seemed about to ... Mysteries she became much more : " she herself in grief and mourning entered upon the path of initiation and turned ...
Contents
Anger and Tenderness | 1 |
The Sacred Calling | 23 |
The Kingdom of the Fathers | 39 |
Copyright | |
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