Women Who Run With the Wolves
Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype
Random House Publishing Group · Print & ebook · November 27, 1996
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • More than 2.7 million copies sold! • “A deeply spiritual book [that] honors what is tough, smart and untamed in women.”—The Washington Post Book World Book club pick for Emma Watson’s Our Shared Shelf Within every woman there lives a powerful force, filled with good instincts, passionate creativity, and ageless knowing.
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- Who it’s for
- Readers interested in women's spirituality and psychology
- Themes
- female psyche, myth and folklore, spirituality
- Pacing
- Reflective
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • More than 2.7 million copies sold! • “A deeply spiritual book [that] honors what is tough, smart and untamed in women.”—The Washington Post Book World Book club pick for Emma Watson’s Our Shared Shelf Within every woman there lives a powerful force, filled with good instincts, passionate creativity, and ageless knowing. She is the Wild Woman, who represents the instinctual nature of women. But she is an endangered species.
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For though the gifts of wildish nature belong to us at birth, society’s attempt to “civilize” us into rigid roles has muffled the deep, life-giving messages of our own souls. In Women Who Run with the Wolves, Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés unfolds rich intercultural myths, fairy tales, folk tales, and stories, many from her own traditions, in order to help women reconnect with the fierce, healthy, visionary attributes of this instinctual nature. Through the stories and commentaries in this remarkable book, we retrieve, examine, love, and understand the Wild Woman, and hold her against our deep psyches as one who is both magic and medicine. Dr. Estés has created a new lexicon for describing the female psyche. Fertile and life-giving, it is a psychology of women in the truest sense, a knowing of the soul.
Who it’s for
- Readers interested in women's spirituality and psychology
- Book club members exploring myths and archetypes
Where it sits
| Folklore & Mythology | 51% |
|---|---|
| Gender & Sexuality | 34% |
| Women's Studies | 32% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Spiritual Healing
- Spiritualism
- Women's Studies
- Authors
- Clarissa Pinkola Estés
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group
- Published
- November 27, 1996
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- female psyche · myth and folklore · spirituality
- Reading lane
- Spiritual Healing