From ancient myths to modern culture, The Shrinking Goddess explores how stories about women’s bodies – wild, sacred, and strange – have shaped our world. Mineke Schipper reclaims the female body as a source of power against centuries of attempts to control it.
From ancient myths to modern culture, The Shrinking Goddess explores how stories about women’s bodies – wild, sacred, and strange – have shaped our world. Mineke Schipper reclaims the female body as a source of power against centuries of attempts to control it.
Drawing on sources from Ancient Egypt and Greece to Africa, the Americas and beyond, cultural historian Mineke Schipper explores widowhood as both oppression and... Læs mere