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Kissing the Hag: The Dark Goddess and the Unacceptable Nature of Women [Paperback]

Emma Restall-Orr
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  • Paperback: 240 pages
  • Publisher: O Books (31 Oct 2008)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1846941571
  • ISBN-13: 978-1846941573
  • Product Dimensions: 21.3 x 13.7 x 2.3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 30,520 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Kissing the Hag is a wonderfully intelligent, earthy, cosmic diary of the feminine life. I love the way it walks the edge between personal and collective, physical and poetic, highly ethical and thick in the uncertainties. While many writers fall into spiritualizing and intellectualizing the feminine, this life-soaked book remains close to the fluids of body and soul, even as it gives birth to one trusted insight after another. It's an obvious gift-book for women going through a life passage, but it could also be important for men, who are closer to the mysteries presented here than they might wish to be. --Thomas Moore, author of Care of the Soul and A Life at Work

Kissing the Hag tracks the initiatory phases of womanhood through the titles that women get cat-called throughout time. Here the raw reality of the Dark Goddess speaks her honest truth, going beyond the bad-mouthing and the sweet-talking fantasies surrounding women, to the compassionate heart of female identity. --Caitlin Matthews, author of Sophia, Goddess of Wisdom and In Search of Woman's Passionate Soul

I will one day give my daughter Kissing the Hag and hope she has less need of it than I do ... Kissing the Hag demands your full attention, it calls passionately to something deep inside, something that will not be denied. The book is both devastating and life affirming and there is no doubt in my mind that it will change the life of every person brave enough to read it. Embrace your hag or she will bite you ... --Shannon Smy, free spirit and singer/songwriter in award-winning protest band, Seize the Day

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Based upon the old tale of The Marriage of Sir Gawain, Kissing the Hag brings us face to face with the nauseating horror of the hag - the raw side, the dark side, the inside of a woman's essential nature. Here we find the untamed soul, the wild, angry, selfish, lustful, manipulative and incomprehensible elements of woman: all that makes us unacceptable and badly behaved. Too often we have been guided to point a finger of blame, accusing our parents, society, our partners of being dysfunctional. Here Emma Restall Orr doesn't allow us that option. As a Druid and animist, she takes the negative stereotypes of the irrational, emotional woman - feisty bitch to shameless whore, smothering mother to grumpy old bag - and finds the archetypes behind them, the faces and forms of the dark goddess.Instead of dismissing these as unacceptable, she encourages us to ride their wild emotional currents, surfing the awesome tides that threaten to overwhelm us. In Kissing the Hag, we come to accept the fullness of our nature, celebrating the deep mystery, the magic and power of all we are. Kissing the Hag is a book written for women who long to loose the chains of insecurity, convention, guilt and self-negation, and rediscover the freedom and creativity of their true nature. It is also a book written for men fascinated but infuriated by the women they love.

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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful
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This is a superb book highlighting the many different aspects of women and the dark Goddesses. Reading this as a man getting on in years I found it to be very enlightening and awe inspiring. Emma does not pull her punches and I found myself on many occassions saying, "ah yes", now i understand. This should be a must read for any on a pagan path but also for men who wish to try and understand women a lot more than perhaps they do.
The anecdotes that pepper the text are a brilliant way of getting across a point, it matters not whether they come from the author herself and im sure that they must resonate strongly with the women who read this book.
One of the best books on women and the Goddesses that ive read and ive read many. Not afraid to mix it up amid the blood and mud, this is written for real. Highly recommended.
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17 of 18 people found the following review helpful
An excellent book 22 Oct 2009
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I have learned much from Emma Restall-Orr's more recent books. She appears to have moved from a spirituality built around worship and ritual to an experiential nature-centred world view. Her recent books have thus offered no ready-made path but have challenged the reader to find their own through their interractions and their just "being" part of nature. Nevertheless, she acknowledges that, in being part of nature, we move through phases in our life and cycles in our lives. As a man, I found this book exciting and, personally, ground breaking. The book is "dense" in parts and one can almost feel the author struggling with a multitude of ideas and wondering what to put in and leave out. To get the best from the book then, I found it important to read it more than once - although this may be because I am not a woman! But as a journey through life's changes and a framework in which to make sense of things I was impressed. I have bought two copies, one to lend and the other to make sure I am not without one on my shelf. Read it, ask your partner to read it and then sit down and just talk. Amazing what you learn.
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26 of 31 people found the following review helpful
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This is the most fantastic book I have ever read, so true to life and down to earth. When I first picked it up there was no way I could put it down. Each and every page leaves you wanting to read more. I have recommended this to all my like-minded fiends as well as my Mum. It is a book every woman should read wether they are Druid, Pagan, Christian, whatever. A well read book that is impossible to put down.
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