{"product_id":"9780062509253-womans-ency-myths-secrets-pb","title":"Women's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAlphabetically arranged entries offer a feminist perspective on mythology, anthropology, sexuality, and religion and trace major figures, myths, concepts, and symbols back to their pre-patriarchal origins.\u003cbr\u003eDo You Know.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ewhere the legend of a cat's nine lives comes from\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e why \"mama\" is a word understood in nearly all languages\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ehow the custom of kissing began\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ewhether there really was a female pope\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ewhy Cinderella's glass slipper was so important to the Prince \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 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. \u003cem\u003eThe Woman's Encyclopedia\u003c\/em\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 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.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Not only a compendium of fascinating lore and scholarship, \u003cem\u003eThe Woman's Encyclopedia\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55170197520758,"sku":"9780062509253","price":35.05,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_33245806.jpg?v=1744027030","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780062509253-womans-ency-myths-secrets-pb","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}