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The dance of the dissident daughter : a woman's journey from Christian tradition to the sacred feminine

Presents the author's journey from her life as a traditional Christian wife and mother to that of a woman who argues for a feminine face of God as she travels the world looking for enlightenment.

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Main Author: Kidd, Sue Monk.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, N.Y. : HarperOne, 2002.
Edition:1st Harpercollins pbk. ed.
Subjects and Genres:
Kidd, Sue Monk.
Spiritual biography > United States.
Feminists > United States > Biography.
Feminism > Religious aspects.
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Table of 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 feminine spiritual consciousness
  • 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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