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Spiritual Power Within the Feminist Movement. New York: Doubleday, 1982.
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Jovanovich, by arrangement with Dial Press, 1978.
- Anthony Stevens, Archetypes: A Natural History of the Self (New York: Morrow,
1982), pp. 1–5. - C. G. Jung, “The Concept of the Collective Unconscious” (1936), CW, vol. 9, part
1 (1968), p. 44, and “Archetypes of the Collective Unconscious” (1954), CW. vol.
9, part 1 (1968), pp. 3–4. - Hesiod, Theogony, in Hesiod, trans. Richard Lattimore (Ann Arbor, Mich.: The
University of Michigan Press, 1959). - Marija Gimbutas, “Women and Culture in Goddess-Oriented Old Europe,” in
The Politics of Women’s Spirituality: Essays on the Rise of Spiritual Power Within the
Women’s Movement, ed. Charlene Spretnak (New York: Doubleday. 1982), pp.
22–31. - Robert Graves, The Greek Myths, vol. 1 (New York: Penguin, 1982), p. 13.
- Jane Ellen Harrison, Mythology (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1963
[originally published 1924]), p. 49. - Merlin Stone, When God Was a Woman (New York: Harvest/Harcourt Brace
Jovanovich, by arrangement with the Dial Press, 1978), p. 228.
CHAPTER 2: ACTIVATING THE GODDESSES
- C. G. Jung, “Psychological Aspects of the Mother Archetype” (1954), CW, vol. 9,
part 1 (1968), p. 79. - Maxine Hong Kingston, The Woman Warrior (New York: Vintage Books/Random
House, 1977). - This shift in goddess archetypes during menstrual cycles is based on clinical ob-
servations from my psychiatric practice. For research support documenting a
shift from independent and active (or aggressive) to dependent and passive atti-
tudes correlated with menstrual cycles, see Therese Benedek, “The Correlations
Between Ovarian Activity and Psychodynamic Processes,” in Therese Benedek,
ed., Psychoanalytic Investigation (New York: Quadrangle/New York Times Book
Co., 1973), pp. 129–223.
CHAPTER 3: THE VIRGIN GODDESSES
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- Syndicated article (found, for example, in City on a Hill
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