To Be a Woman : birth of a conscious feminine

by Connie Zweig

Essays by psychologists, feminists, and scholars discuss the changing role of women, the development of conscious femininity, female-initiated divorce, the return to motherhood, and female-centered spirituality

Genres: Nonfiction, Psychology, Feminism, Womens Studies

284 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 1990

About the author

I'm co-author Meeting the Shadow, Romancing the Shadow. My award-winning book, THE INNER WORK OF AGE: SHIFTING FROM ROLE TO SOUL, extends shadow-work into midlife and beyond and explores aging as a spiritual practice.
It won three book awards!

MEETING THE SHADOW ON THE SPIRITUAL PATH: The Dance of Darkness and Light in our Journey to Awakening is available now. If you experienced religious abuse or spiritual disillusionment, you can find guidance here and rekindle your inspiration.

Meeting the Shadow on the Spiritual Path:
https://www.amazon.com/Meeting-Shadow...

Inner Work of Age is available here:
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https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/AS...

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I'm blogging excerpts at http://medium.com/@conniezweig

If you want to read either book in an online group,
email me at conniezweig@gmail.com

Reviews

[Mckinley · Rating 3 out of 5]

Great collection of work to think about.

[Sabrina · Rating 1 out of 5]

Yeah, no. Not my cup of tea.

[Lars Winky · Rating 5 out of 5]

Absolutely life changing book. 7th text to read in the healing course. A deep dive into what really is the sacred, deep feminine, the masculine, how it works right now, an didentification on its positive and negative states, the process of discovering it and the liberation of it. Relates the importance of awakening the feminie attributes independently os our gender, both men and women need to embrace and pflourish on their feminine attributes to achieve balance within themselves and the collective experience of living. the arquetipe of womanhood in the past. The 4 greek myths that manifest the women symbol. The feminine energy, what it is in its pure essence. To be a mother for ourselves. TO be a father for ourselves. The archetipe of the ancient wise woman. Yang feminine, the active feminine. The search of the masculine outside of us, the proyection on our fathers and our husbands. The discovery of the dark deepths and the embrace of flow and emergence to get deep represedded insights and the chaos, loneliness that attributes, and the trancendence of it to become a balanced energy for change in society. ABSOLUTELY MINDBLOWING.

[Anna Roldós · Rating 3 out of 5]

Un libro que se enmarca en los primeros estadios de la tercera ola feminista (principios de los 90) y que tiene que cogerse como tal por algunas ideas que contiene.

Reflexiones de varias autoras (y de tres autores; solo he leído la del primero de ellos y me ha resultado muy cansino por su "los hombres también sufren mucho") sobre qué nos hace mujeres a nivel psicológico (se centra muchísimo en la psicología jungiana), el papel de la mujer en la sociedad, el feminismo, y cómo afecta el patriarcado al desarrollo de las mujeres, tantos psicológicamente como espiritualmente.

El problema que he tenido con el libro es que tiene un enfoque espiritual demasiado relacionado con Dios (y otros tipos de divinidades), algo que yo no comparto, por lo que no me siento apelada por muchas ideas de desarrollo personal que ofrece. Aun así el libro tiene algunas ideas interesantes que me han ayudado a reflexionar y a cuestionarme ciertas cosas.

[Maria del Pilar · Rating 3 out of 5]

I finished it yesterday. The most attractive has been the story of Arthur and the enigmatic question, reading about kindness, nobleness, friendship and the wanting of women owning their own life. Tears embracing me by the sentiments expressing in this chapter.