Gender Studies, Sex Role

The Heroine's Journey

Name: The Heroine's Journey
Author: Maureen Murdock
ISBN: 9780877734857

by Maureen Murdock

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Overview

This book describes contemporary woman's search for wholeness in a society in which she has been defined according to masculine values. Drawing upon cultural myths and fairy tales, ancient symbols and goddesses, and the dreams of contemporary women, Murdock illustrates the need for—and the reality of—feminine values in Western culture today.

A nine state process that entails at first rejecting feminine values, making it in the man's work, experiencing spiritual death, and finally turning inward.

About the Author, Maureen Murdock

Maureen Murdock is a licensed family therapist in private practice in Venice, California, and teaches in the UCLA Extension Writer's Program. She is also the internationally published author of The Heroine's Journey, Spinning Inward, and Fathers' Daughters. The Heroine's Journey Workbook grew out of her work with women in therapy and workshops conducted throughout North America over the past twenty years.

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Murdock traces her journey from rejection of the feminine in order to ``succeed'' in a masculine world; through discovery of the inadequacy of ``success''; through a dark night of the soul and a killing of masculine divine images; to a discovery of the Goddess and of the feminine (including her own feminine embodiment); to a healing of the separated feminine and of the wounded masculine within herself. She ends with the hope for true conjunction, true union beyond duality. This personal book by a family therapist is especially recommended for public and seminary libraries.