Here All Dwell Free: Stories to Heal the Wounded Feminine - Hardcover

Nelson, Gertrud Mueller; Nelson, Mueller Gertrud

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0385421001 ISBN 13: 9780385421003

Publisher: Doubleday, 1991

Synopsis

Uses fairy tales to enable women and men to get in touch with their feminine natures, and describes how society as a whole can do the same for itself

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From the Inside Flap:

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

About this edition

• Publisher: Doubleday
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0385421001
• ISBN 13: 9780385421003
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 364