Here All Dwell Free - Softcover

Nelson, Gillian

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0449907899 ISBN 13: 9780449907894

Verlag: Fawcett, 1993

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Book by Nelson Gertrud Muel

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Employs two of the Grimm's fairy tales to illustrate the dilemma of modern men and women, who struggle to free the feminine side of themselves, and discusses how the Feminine can be made a powerful part of society. Reprint.

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being has both masculine and feminine characteristics, but because our civilization undervalues the Feminine, she hides within each individual and stands in need of healing. In Here All Dwell Free, Gertrud Mueller Nelson shows us how the wisdom of folk mythology offers us both the diagnosis of our ills and the healing prescription we seek for our feminine natures.
Nelson takes two Grimm's fairy tales and demonstrates how they refect the dilemma of modern women, and men, as they struggle to free and heal the feminine within their own personalities and their very culture. In "The Handless Maiden," a miller's daughter sacrifices her flesh-and-blood hands to preserve her father's material, mechanical world. In "Briar Rose," a princess is cursed by a forgotten mother-goddess to sleep, deathlike, until her dormant feminine nature is awakened.
In a mesmerizing interpretation of these two women and their passages to healing, Nelson shows us the difference between passivity and

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• Verlag: Fawcett
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0449907899
• ISBN 13: 9780449907894
• Einband: Tapa blanda