Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Steps toward a feminist archetypal theory of mythmaking
  • pt. 1. Individual visions: ch. 1. Anne Sexton's radical discontent
  • ch. 2. Käthe Kollwitz: the power of the mother (with Dominique Rozenberg)
  • ch. 3. Margaret Atwood: remythologizing Circe
  • ch. 4. Remedios Varo: the creative woman and the female quest
  • ch. 5. Diane Wakoski: disentangling the woman from the moon
  • ch. 6. Léonor Fini: re-envisioning La belle dame sans merci
  • pt. 2. Collective visions: ch. 7. Mythic patterns in contemporary visual art by women
  • ch. 8. "Woman and nature" revisited in poetry by women
  • Conclusion: The light is in us.