The Woman's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets

Author: Barbara G. Walker

Code :  ENCENC1000696

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The Woman's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets

Author: Barbara G. Walker

Code :  ENCENC1000696

not available

The Woman's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets

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Author:  Barbara G. Walker

Publisher:  HarperCollins

Place of printing:  London

Year of publication:  1983

Do You Know...

  • where the legend of a cat's nine lives comes from?

  • why "mama" is a word understood in nearly all languages?

  • how the custom of kissing began?

  • whether there really was a female pope?

  • why Cinderella's glass slipper was so important to the Prince?

The answers to these and countless other intriguing questions are given in this compulsively readable, feminist encyclopedia. Twenty-five years in preparation, this unique, comprehensive sourcebook focuses on mythology anthropology, religion, and sexuality to uncover precisely what other encyclopedias leave out or misrepresent. The Woman's Encyclopedia presents the fascinating stories behind word origins, legends, superstitions, and customs. A browser's delight and an indispensable resource, it offers 1,350 entries on magic, witchcraft, fairies, elves, giants, goddesses, gods, and psychological anomalies such as demonic possession; the mystical meanings of sun, moon, earth, sea, time, and space; ideas of the soul, reincarnation, creation and doomsday; ancient and modern attitudes toward sex, prostitution, romance, rape, warfare, death and sin, and more.

Tracing these concepts to their prepatriarchal origins, Barbara G. Walker explores a "thousand hidden pockets of history and custom in addition to the valuable material recovered by archaeologists, orientalists, and other scholars."

Not only a compendium of fascinating lore and scholarship, The Woman's Encyclopedia is a revolutionary book that offers a rare opportunity for both women and men to see our cultural heritage in a fresh light, and draw upon the past for a more humane future.

Product Condition:
Specimen in good condition.Text in English. Cover with signs of wear to the corners and a small spot of moisture at the lower end of the spine which comprises a portion of the pages. Cut the yellowed and with small spots of dust. Pages yellowed at the edges.Note to gift a pen to the title page. English text. Book in good conditions. Cover with signs of use at the corners and with small patch of moisture at the lower end of the back including part of the pages.Yellowed edges and with small dust spots. Yellowed pages at the edges. Pen gift note on the frontespiece.

ISBN Code:  006250925X

EAN:  9780062509253

Pages:  1124

Format:  Paperback

Dimensions (cm):
Height:  24
Width:  16

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English text/ English text.

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