- Paperback: 238 pages
- Publisher: HarperCollins; Reprint edition (22 Nov 2002)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 006064589X
- ISBN-13: 978-0060645892
- Product Dimensions: 20.2 x 13 x 1.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 494,430 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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?A graceful account of awakening and transformation.?Library Journal ?The journey to capture her feminine soul and live authentically...makes a fascinating, well-researched and well-written story.?Publishers Weekly A masterpiece of womens wisdom.Christiane Northrup, M.D. author of Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom
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The author of When the Heart Waits takes the reader on her journey from traditional Christian wife and mother to a woman who argues for a feminine face of God as she travels the world looking for enlightenment. Reprint.
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37 of 37 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
As the author walks us through the stages in her inner journey toward healing the effects of a lifetime of patriarchy on her, the reader becomes aware of the profundity and significance of this event. She gives voice to the painful injustices that mark a life lived within male-dominated systems, especially as she finally arrived at the point where those injustices became clear to her. Her questioning of her religion, her marriage, and her work are only a small part of the larger realm that she needed to deal with as she struggled to uncover, liberate, and take ownership of her female self as well as embrace the Divine Feminine. It has been truly enriching and liberating just to enter into this journey, and recognize that her voice is an echo of what is the common struggle of women everywhere. This is an excellent book for women to read! At times I identified so intensely with what I was reading that my deepest emotions overwhelmed me.
12 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Although I enjoyed the honesty of Sue Monk Kidd's writing and the careful description of her spiritual journey and the historical and theological contexts she put it in, I was a bit surprised that it was published in 1997 because really I have been reading this sort of stuff for 20 years. I bought it because of the other reviews and I decided to write my own to say to others who are already well on the way with their spiritual and feminist journey that you won't find much new here. If you admire for instance, Diane Mariechild, Sara Maitland, Karen Armstrong, Pinkola Estes, Monica Furlong, to name just a few, then you will already know what the author is writing about. Maybe the most shocking thing for me was to realise that the success of this book must mean that there are still so many women buried in the traditional worlds of patriarchal Christianity and if this book gives them the courage to challenge that world, then that is great. However, I was a little disappointed.
12 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
On a rainy autumn afternoon, Sue Monk Kidd's teenage daughter is on her knees stocking shelves at the local drugstore. Two middle-aged men walk by and one comments, "That's how I like to see a woman...on her knees." They laugh. The author, observing from another aisle, does not. Thus begins a slow, arduous, and painful epiphany for this well-known Christian author as she journeys the 'road less traveled', exploring feminine spirituality and its sudden impact on her life. I found this engrossing book well-documented, painful, and provocative. If you are a woman questioning the present social mores and your role in life, or a man who wishes to honor his wife and/or daughter(s), this book will give you a fresh perspective on the importance of female spirituality.
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An honest account of one woman's mid-life searching
I'd discovered Sue Monk Kidd's "Travels with Pomegranates" and loved it.So I bought this ,full of expectation. Read more
Published 8 months ago by Lorna Bevan
Provocative and Revolutionary
This brilliant, provocative book is revolutionary. In sharing her firestorm about feminine spirituality Sue Monk Kidd gently guides us through our own awakening. Read more
Published 11 months ago by Niki Collins-queen, Author
a waste of money
If you share my frustration with speakers/writers who use a 1000 words when 100 would do, buy another book. Read more
Published 12 months ago by Gracenotes
Gratifying
I have been following Sue Monk Kidd since those days when she was a contributing writer to Norman Vincent Peale's Guideposts magazine. Read more
Published on 10 Jun 1999
Buy this book and share it with every woman you know!
As a woman with shelf full of women's studies and spirituality books, I can say this is the best I have ever read. Read more
Published on 21 Mar 1999
A must read book!!!!
Thank you Sue Monk Kidd for writing this book. It was an affirmation that the journey I'm on is where I am suppose to be. I could identify with most everything you shared. Read more
Published on 25 Sep 1998
A text book of "Family Values" that gives a daughter hope!
Sue Monk Kidd's touching and honest story of her journey toward wholeness is an comfort to women who have made similar journeys and an inspiration to women who are just beginning... Read more
Published on 20 Mar 1998
Thought-provoking narrative of spiritual/intellectual growth
A friend grabbed me and thrust this book into my hands - it was changing her life, she said, and she needed to discuss it with someone. Read more
Published on 20 Oct 1997
A woman shares her spiritual journey with others.
"Sometimes another woman's story becomes a mirror that shows me a self I haven't seen before." Sue Monk Kidd writes these words and holds up such a mirror in this... Read more
Published on 30 July 1997
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