... impressive work of scholarship... Exceptional Human Experience
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Steps toward a Feminist Archetypal Theory of Mythmaking
Part One: Individual Visions
Chapter 1 Anne Sextons Radical Discontent
Chapter 2 Kathe Kollwitz: The Power of the Mother (with Dominique Rozenberg)
Chapter 3 Margaret Atwood: Remythologizing Circe
Chapter 4 Remedios Varo: The Creative Woman and the Female Quest
Chapter 5 DIane Wakoski: Disentangling the Woman from the Moon
Chapter 6 Leonor Fini: Re-envisioning La Belle Dame sans Merci
Part Two: Collective Visions
Chapter 7 Mythic Patterns in Contemporary Visual Art by Women
Chapter 8 Woman and Nature Revisited in Poetry by Women
Conclusion The Light In in Us
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Winner of the 1985 Chicago Women in Publishing Award