At the Root of This Longing: Reconciling a Spiritual Hunger and a Feminist Thirst.

Carol L. Flinders.

ISBN 10: 006251315X / ISBN 13: 9780062513151

Published by HarperOne, New York, NY, 1999

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Fine in Wraps: shows only the expected faint tanning to the text pages, due to aging; the binding is square and secure; the text is clean. Free of creases to the panels. Free of creases to the backstrip. Free of creased or dog-eared pages in the text. Free of any underlining, hi-lighting or marginalia or marks in the text. Free of ownership names, dates, addresses, notations, inscriptions, stamps, or labels. A handsome, like-new copy, structurally sound and tightly bound, showing no flaws. Bright and clean. Corners sharp. Virtually 'As New'. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 8vo. (8 x 5.35 x 1 inches). 369 pages. Language: English. Weight: 10.5 ounces. First Edition Thus (1998), Sixth Printing (2001). Trade Paperback. Feminism and spirituality are at the heart of a personal struggle through which the author gracefully leads the reader. The two systems, often polarized against each other, are reconciled over the course of a lifetime of meditation and activism. A student and scholar in her own right of women mystics and mystical literature, the author demonstrates that these God-seekers offer hope and lessons which can nourish feminism. The sacred feminine principle holds one key to a potentially brighter future for feminism. There is no preachiness here, no prescribed methodology, because it is recognized that all are part of the divine having the answers within, and that the ideas presented here, must be realized at a grassroots level to change society: Gandhi's struggle for a free India is used as one example. Finally, if you are intrigued by Hinduism, Western mystics such as Julian of Norwich and Teresa of Avila, if you are interested in reading some of the new directions in feminism, this may be the book for you. And, if you are a father of a young daughter, you especially ought to read this book to be informed of what is happening to young girls in patriarchal cultures around the world. First Edition Thus (1999), Sixth Printing (2001).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: At the Root of This Longing: Reconciling a Spiritual Hunger and a Feminist Thirst.
• Publisher: HarperOne, New York, NY
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 006251315X
• ISBN 13: 9780062513151
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Seller catalogs:
  • Women's Studies & Feminism

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Synopsis

In this brilliant exploration of the apparent conflicts and tensions between feminism and contemplative spirituality, Carol Lee Flinders uncovers how a life of meaning, self-knowledge, and freedom depends on both.

In 'At the Root of This Longing'

About the Author

Carol Lee Flinders has a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from U.C. Berkeley, where she has also taught writing and mystical literature courses. She is the author of Enduring Grace and Little Book of Women Mystics. For the past twenty-five years she has lived in a spiritual community in Northern California.