Spider Woman imagery in second wave feminist fiction : "Lady Oracle", "The woman who owned the shadows" and "The temple of my familiar"

Spider Woman imagery in second wave feminist fiction : "Lady Oracle", "The woman who owned the shadows" and "The temple of my familiar"

This thesis is a journey into the realm of Spider Woman—the Cosmic Weaver—and explores ways in which Spider Woman figures and textile imagery became increasingly important and powerful healing metaphors in literature, during the rise of second wave feminism. Margaret Atwood's Lady Oracle, Paula...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Young, Janice E.
Other Authors: Dean, Misao Anne
Language:English
en
Published: 2008
Subjects:
feminism
women healers
criticism
interpretation
UVic Subject Index::Humanities and Social Sciences::Literature::Canadian literature
UVic Subject Index::Humanities and Social Sciences::Literature::American literature
UVic Subject Index::Humanities and Social Sciences::Social Sciences::Women's studies
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1828/998

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