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Author | : Merlin Stone |
Publisher | : Beacon Press (MA) |
Total Pages | : 456 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
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Now in one volume -- the classic work on ancient goddesses and heroines. This joyous book recovers for our times the long-forgotten images of courageous, wise, and powerful women that flourished centuries ago in the religious and folk traditions of civilizations around the world.
Author | : Merlin Stone |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Feminism |
ISBN | : |
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This collection of ancient images of women as goddesses and heroines brings together legends, rituals, and prayers from China, Celtic Europe, South America, Africa, India, North America, Scandinavia, Japan, and elsewhere.
Author | : Merlin Stone |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1979 |
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ISBN | : |
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Author | : Merlin Stone |
Publisher | : Doubleday |
Total Pages | : 379 |
Release | : 2012-05-09 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0307816850 |
Download When God Was A Woman Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Here, archaeologically documented,is the story of the religion of the Goddess. Under her, women’s roles were far more prominent than in patriarchal Judeo-Christian cultures. Stone describes this ancient system and, with its disintegration, the decline in women’s status.
Author | : Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones |
Publisher | : Classical Press of Wales |
Total Pages | : 369 |
Release | : 2003-12-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1910589896 |
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Greek women routinely wore the veil. That is the unexpected finding of this meticulous study, one with interesting implications for the origins of Western civilisation. The Greeks, popularly (and rightly) credited with the invention of civic openness, are revealed as also part of a more Eastern tradition of seclusion. Llewellyn-Jones' work proceeds from literary and, notably, from iconographic evidence. In sculpture and vase painting it demonstrates the presence of the veil, often covering the head, but also more unobtrusively folded back onto the shoulders. This discreet fashion not only gave a priviledged view of the face to the ancient art consumer, but also, incidentally, allowed the veil to escape the notice of traditional modern scholarship. From Greek literary sources, the author shows that full veiling of the head and face was commonplace. He analyses the elaborate Greek vocabulary for veiling and explores what the veil meant to achieve. He shows that the veil was a conscious extension of the house and was often referred to as `tegidion', literally `a little roof'. Veiling was thus an ingeneous compromise; it allowed women to circulate in public while mainting the ideal of a house-bound existence. Alert to the different types of veil used, the author uses Greek and more modern evidence (mostly from the Arab world) to show how women could exploit and subvert the veil as a means of eloquent, sometimes emotional, communication. First published in 2003 and reissued as a paperback in 2010, Llewellyn-Jones' book has established itself as a central - and inspiring - text for the study of ancient women.
Author | : Jenifer Neils |
Publisher | : British museum Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Art, Egyptian |
ISBN | : 9780714150772 |
Download Women in the Ancient World Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
From the faithful wife to the powerful queen, the untouchable priestess to the high-living prostitute, the daily lives and roles of women in the ancient world of Greece and Rome, Egypt and the Near East were fascinating and varied, often going beyond the traditional view of 'a woman's place'. Through themes such as domestic life, religion, work, mothers and mourners, stereotypes, costume and the body, this lively book explores the traditions and trends of different cultures, using intriguing juxtapositions of images to compare and contrast the attitudes of each society. The author takes a fresh and thought-provoking look at new ways of viewing these images, pointing out the signs that reveal how a woman is to be viewed, whether as an example of perfect femininity or the object of scorn. Beautifully designed and packed with a wide range of illustrations, from public art to domestic artefacts, many specially photographed, this book reveals compelling details about the everyday lives of women in the ancient world that will delight, inform and entertain all readers, often with surprising resonances for our own time.
Author | : Madelyn Gutwirth |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 468 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : |
Download The Twilight of the Goddesses Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In this extraordinarily rich book, Madelyn Gutwirth examines over one hundred prints and paintings, dozens of texts, and the work of a great many cultural critics in order to consider how gender politics were played out during a highly volatile era. Finding evidence of a crisis in gender relations during the eighteenth century, she traces its evolution in the politics of rococo art, demographic trends, plans for the control of prostitution, maternal nursing and wet-nursing practices, folklore, the salon, and in the theater of Diderot and the polemics of Rousseau. Gutwirth shows how a hostile gender ideology consigned women to a solely mothering role before the political revolution began, and how women who struggled to participate in the nascent First French Republic found themselves hobbled by the representational practices of the revolutionaries, especially their use of allegory. The artificiality and anachronism of the Revolution's representation of women were ratified by the Napoleonic Code. Once depicted as erotic goddesses by the rococo, then as goddesses of liberty (Marianne), the dominant figuration of women around 1800 would become the dying waif. As modern republics began their struggle toward legitimacy, women's posture within them had been reduced, by representation, to feeble marginality. Gutwirth combines perspectives from literature, history, sociology, demography, psychology, and art history and criticism in her delineation of this crisis.
Author | : Sherrill Miller |
Publisher | : Penguin Press HC |
Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : |
Download Visions of the Goddess Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Through breathtaking photos of natural landscapes and in-depth histories of goddess archetypes for each region shown, this volume takes readers back in time through the eyes of the ancient peoples. 125 color photos.
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Publisher | : Quest Books |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 2014-08-22 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : 0835631427 |
Download The Goddess Re-Awakening Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This anthology, with essays by Riane Eisler, June Singer, and others, considers Goddess myths, current psychological perspectives, and the feminine principle in spirituality today. It offers a worldview that integrates intuition, intellect, and feeling.
Author | : Gerda Lerner |
Publisher | : Women and History; V. 1 |
Total Pages | : 362 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780195051858 |
Download The Creation of Patriarchy Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A radical reinterpretation of Western civilization argues that male dominance has resulted from, and can be ended by, historical process, and identifies key developments.