notes

Larrington, Carolyne
Then Woman's Companion to Mythology
Harper Collins Publishers London 1992

Caputi, Jane
On Psychic Activism:
Feminist Myth Makers

also the author of
http://www.wisc.edu/wisconsinpress/books/2578.htm

Interview: Jane Caputi, Ph.D.
http://www.pbs.org/kued/nosafeplace/interv/caputi.html

quote :
“Creation myths are not about the origins of the
world at all, but about the origins of patriarchy
which has claimed itself as the world”

Purkiss, Diane
Women's Rewriting of Myth

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diane_Purkiss



other:

Stories that instruct, renew, and heal provide a vital
nourishment to the psyche that cannot be obtained in
any other way. Stories reveal over and over again the
precious and peculiar knack that humans have for
triumph over travail. They provide all the vital instructions
we need to live a useful, necessary and unbounded life --
a life of meaning, a life worth remembering.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes - in her book The Gift of Story

other books include Women Who Run with the Wolves;
Warming the Stone Child: Myths & Stories About
Abandonment and the Unmothered Child; The Creative Fire:
Myths and Stories About the Cycles of Creativity

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarissa_Pinkola_Estés