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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kidd, Sue Monk.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kidd, Sue Monk.

Spiritual biography--United States.

Spiritual biography.

Feminists--United States--Biography.

Feminists.

Feminism--Religious aspects.

Feminism.

Physical Description:

xii, 253 p. ; 21 cm.

Edition:

1st Harpercollins pbk. ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, N.Y. : HarperOne, 2002.

Summary:

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.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-236).

Originally published in hardcover in 1996.

Includes insights, interviews and more.

ISBN:

9780061144905 (pbk.)

0061144908 (pbk.)

OCLC:

173641646