Passion - Spontaneity - Transformation. Anthropological topics of femininity based on Clarissa Pinkola Estés novel "Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype" Cover Image

Dzikość, Żywiołowość, Przemiana. Antropologiczne wątki kobiecości na podstawie Biegnącej z wilkami Clarissy Pinkoli Estés
Passion - Spontaneity - Transformation. Anthropological topics of femininity based on Clarissa Pinkola Estés novel "Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype"

Author(s): Marta Małecka
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Language and Literature Studies, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Akademii Pomorskiej w Słupsku
Keywords: woman;archetype;reading;initiation;body

Summary/Abstract: Research done in the fields of humanities to find such areas useful for pedagogy should be aiming to gain knowledge of conditions and circumstances for designing of the requested structural integrity and its impact on educational practice. One of these areas is undoubtedly the occasion to meet cultural texts – a content that results in reader’s awakening, causing transformation. A perfect example of facing this kind of an influential text is a read of Clarrisa Estes’ ‘Women Who Run With the Wolves’. The read calls for a metaphorical journey into the depths of femininity and the stories presented resemble perfect direction guidelines. It is a kind of journey that examines the inner reality of femininity – it is a meeting with a world of unaffected, instinctive womanhood.

  • Issue Year: 2015
  • Issue No: 1/2
  • Page Range: 238-253
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Polish