List Books » Dance of the Dissident Daughter: A Woman's Journey from Christian Tradition to the Sacred Feminine
Authors: Sue Monk Kidd
ISBN-13: 9780061144905, ISBN-10: 0061144908
Format: Paperback
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Date Published: December 2006
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Already the author of two widely acclaimed nonfiction books, The Dance of the Dissident Daughter and When the Heart Waits, Sue Monk Kidd broke into blockbuster bestselling territory with her first novel, the book-club favorite The Secret Life of Bees.
"I was amazed to find that I had no idea how to unfold my spiritual life in a feminine way. I was surprised, and, in fact, a little terrified, when I found myself in the middle of a feminist spiritual reawakening." ––Sue Monk Kidd
For years, Sue Monk Kidd was a conventionally religious woman. Then, in the late 1980s, Kidd experienced an unexpected awakening, and began a journey toward a feminine spirituality. With the exceptional storytelling skills that have helped make her name, author of When the Heart Waits tells her very personal story of the fear, anger, healing, and freedom she experienced on the path toward the wholeness that many women have lost in the church. From a jarring encounter with sexism in a suburban drugstore, to monastery retreats and to rituals in the caves of Crete, she reveals a new level of feminine spiritual consciousness for all women– one that retains a meaningful connection with the "deep song of Christianity," embraces the sacredness of ordinary women's experience, and has the power to transform in the most positive ways every fundamental relationship in a woman's life– her marriage, her career, and her religion.
This Plus edition paperback includes a recent interview with the author conducted by the book's editor Michael Maudlin.
A masterpiece of womens wisdom.
Acknowledgments | ||
Introduction | 1 | |
Pt. 1 | Awakening | 5 |
"That's How I Like to See a Woman" | 7 | |
Conceiving the Feminine Self | 10 | |
The Deep Sleep | 13 | |
The Nest of Yellow Leaves | 24 | |
The Feminine Wound | 28 | |
Faces of Daughterhood | 41 | |
Forming a Feminist Critique | 59 | |
Trusting Your Own Feminine Source | 75 | |
Pt. 2 | Initiation | 85 |
The Unexplored Gorge | 89 | |
Opening to the Feminine Divine | 98 | |
Crossing the Threshold | 103 | |
A Guiding Feminine Myth | 107 | |
Pt. 3 | Grounding | 131 |
Encountering Goddess | 133 | |
Why a Feminine Form for the Formless? | 136 | |
The Coming of Herself | 140 | |
The Symbol Functions | 152 | |
The Dawn of Feminine Spiritual Consciousness | 153 | |
Healing the Feminine Wound | 168 | |
Transfiguring Anger | 186 | |
Forgiveness | 189 | |
The Dance of Dissidence | 190 | |
Pt. 4 | Empowerment | 195 |
Cohesion of the Female Soul | 197 | |
Authentic Power | 199 | |
Buffalo Medicine | 199 | |
Voicing the Soul | 202 | |
Finding Inner Authority | 210 | |
Embodying Sacred Feminine Experience | 217 | |
Daughters, the Women Are Speaking | 223 | |
The Story | 225 | |
Notes | 229 | |
Permissions | 237 |