Journey Through Menopause: A Personal Rite of Passage - Hardcover

Downing, C.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 082450836X ISBN 13: 9780824508364

Publisher: Crossroad Publishing Co ,U.S., 1987

Synopsis

This intensely personal account of the little written-about sacred dimension of menopause combines religious studies with psychology to 'understand menopause as soul-event ...regarding its symptoms as symbols' and provides insight into what this transition can be like for those women who choose to embrace it as a meaningful part of their lives.

About this title

About the Author

CHRISTINE DOWNING, Ph.D., currently teaches in the Mythological Studies Doctoral Program at Pacifica Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara, after serving for almost twenty years as chair of the Religious Studies Department at San Diego State University. Her thirteen books include The Goddess: Mythological Images of the Feminine, and, mostly recently, The Luxury of Afterwards and Preludes.

Synopsis

The author shares her own observations on the psychological and physiological effects of menopause and attempts to define its personal and mythological meanings.

Edition details

• Publisher: Crossroad Publishing Co ,U.S.
• Publication date: 1987
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 082450836X
• ISBN 13: 9780824508364
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 144