Category: Sociology Publisher: McFarland and Co.
ISBN-10: 0786448318
Type: Non-Fiction
Pages: 376
Copyright: Fall 2010
ISBN-13: 9780786448319
This is the first and only book to follow the classic heroine’s journey step by step through world myth, just as Joseph Campbell did for the hero in his groundbreaking The Hero with a Thousand Faces.
Many are familiar with Joseph Campbell's theory of the hero's journey, the idea that every man from Moses to Hercules grows to adulthood while battling his alter-ego. This book explores the universal heroine's journey as she quests through world myth. Numerous stories from cultures as varied as Chile and Vietnam reveal heroines who battle for safety and identity, thereby upsetting popular notions of the passive, gentle heroine. Only after she has defeated her dark side and reintegrated can the heroine become the bestower of wisdom, the protecting queen and arch-crone.
For the reasons I describe in this book, the world-wide suffering, death and extinction of humanity is very likely to occur, unless nonviolent and democratically determined radical and revolutionary personal and societal actions and changes are taken
