Women's Studies - Social Science Books - 1

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Goddesses in Everywoman: Powerful Archetypes in Women's Lives
	Using a typology based on the goddesses of Greek mythology, this exploration of the aspects of the female personality examines psychological patterns, character traits, and symptoms that need to be recognized before changes can take place. Reprint. 20,000 first printing. Goddesses in Everywoman: Powerful Archetypes in Women's Lives
No Angels: Women Who Commit Violence
	Inspired by the Bobbitt case and reactions to it, No Angels looks at high-profile violent women, contemporary and historical, real and fictional, and what society has made of them and their crimes. No Angels: Women Who Commit Violence
Our Looks, Our Lives: Sex, Beauty, Power, and the Need to Be Seen
	The internationally bestselling author of 'My Mother, My Self' and 'My Secret Garden' and renowned champion of women returns with an illuminating and empowering examination of how looks shape our lives. Friday probes the power, allure, and mystique of beauty, including fashion, fear of competition, shoes and sex, adolescent pain, envy, the double standard of aging, fairy tales, feminism, love, and more. Part memoir, part history, this book changes the way we all look in the mirror. Our Looks, Our Lives: Sex, Beauty, Power, and the Need to Be Seen
The Dancing Girls of Lahore: Selling Love And Saving Dreams in Pakistan's Pleasure District
	A cultural history of Lahore's dancing girls profiles their existence in the shadow of a great mosque within the Diamond Market, discussing how their sophisticated art encompasses some of the best of Mughal culture and offering insight into life within the pleasure district as reflected by the experiences of a classically trained young dancer. Reprint. The Dancing Girls of Lahore: Selling Love And Saving Dreams in Pakistan's Pleasure District
The Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Great Goddess
	This brilliant overview of the growth, supression, and modern-day reemergence of Wicca as a Goddess-worshipping religion has left an indelible mark on the feminist spiritual consciousness. In this beautiful 20th-anniversary edition, Starhawk now reveals the ways in which the practice of ritual and Goddess religion have, in the face of a changing world, developed over the last 20 years - and the ways in which these changes have influenced and enhanced her original ideas. This important spiritual guidebook provides both the tools of ancient practice and the means to adapt them to our lives today - for, according to Starhawk, ‘ a living tradition is not static or fixed; it changes and responds to changing needs and changing times.’ The Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Great Goddess

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