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Spiders and spinsters : women and mythology

Spiders & Spinsters weaves a tapestry of voices and images--folk, popular, tribal, ancient and contemporary, by women and men, scholars and critics, psychologists and artists--to show how women have fared in classical Greco-Roman, Judeo-Christian, and indigenous American mythologies. It is a rich sourcebook of goddesses, guides, maidens, crones, heroines, matriarchs, gossips, and those who have portrayed and interpreted them. Hailed as 'wonderful, as well as useful' (Baltimore Sun) and 'a welcome addition to the field of mythology' (Choice), Spiders & Spinsters is a valuable resource for students and scholars in mythology, anthropology, literature, art, psychology, religion, and women studies. It also speaks to creative artists of all kinds and to general readers with interests in story, ritual, dreams, and gender
Print Book, English, ©2007
Sunstone Press, Santa Fe, N.M., ©2007
Folklore
xii, 340 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
9780865345874, 0865345872
137324948
Spiders and spinsters : myth and symbol
Goddesses : myth as Rorschach
Guides : myth and mystery
Moon, menstruation, menopause : myth and ritual
Heroines : myth as model
Origins and matriarchy : myth as charter
Appreciating the mundane : women and mythology
Originally published: Spiders & spinsters. Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, ©1982