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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Meeting the Madwoman | |
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| Modern Masks of the Madwoman | |
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| The Madwoman in Mythology | |
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| The Madwoman at the Movies, the Opera, and in Literature | |
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| The Madwoman and the Judge: The Bacchants | |
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| The Patriarchy... The Madwoman... and Feminine Spirit | |
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| The Madwoman's Paradox: Creation or Destruction | |
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| Befriending the Inner Madwoman | |
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| Mad Mothers, Mad Daughters | |
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| The Saint (or the Too-Nice Mother) | |
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| The Ice Queen | |
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| The Cold Chain of Injury: Autumn Sonata | |
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| Daughter of an Ice Queen: Victoria's Story | |
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| Healing the Ice Queen: A Fairy Tale | |
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| "The Snow Queen": A Healing | |
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| The Dragon Lady | |
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| The Sick Mother | |
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| Understanding the Mad Mother | |
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| The Caged Bird | |
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| Cages | |
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| The Symbol of the Bird | |
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| The Boredom of Mrs. Bridge | |
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| Descending into Madness: The Yellow Wallpaper | |
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| Breaking the Bars Through Writing: Charlotte Perkins Gilman | |
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| Freeing the Caged Bird: The Story of Constance | |
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| Opening the Cage | |
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| The Muse | |
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| The Inner Muse | |
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| The Misuse of the Muse | |
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| On the Pedestal: The Madwoman as Muse | |
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| The Golden Goddess: Alma Mahler | |
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| Dark Muses | |
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| The Tragic Muse: Camille Claudel | |
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| Actualizing the Inner Muse: Celeste's Story | |
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| Transforming the Muse | |
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| The Rejected Lover | |
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| Revenge of the She-Devils | |
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| Medea | |
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| The Tragedy of Maria Callas | |
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| From Victim to the Feminine Spirit: Barbara's Story | |
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| Transforming the Rejected Lover | |
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| The Bag Lady | |
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| Fears of the Bag Lady | |
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| The Bag Lady as Inner Figure | |
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| Facing the Fear: The Story of Diana | |
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| Crazy Wisdom: Trudy the Bag Lady | |
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| Walking Free: Peace Pilgrim | |
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| The External Dilemma | |
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| The Recluse | |
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| The Old Recluse: The Road to Mecca | |
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| Honoring Nature: Rachel Carson | |
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| Healing the Recluse | |
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| The Revolutionary | |
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| The Conscious Revolutionary versus the Terrorist: Raising Feminine Consciousness | |
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| Learning to Fight for Feminine Rights: Brenda's Story | |
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| Female Solidarity: Thelma and Louise | |
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| A Conscious Revolutionary: Rosa Luxemburg | |
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| Embodying Feminine Power | |
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| The Visionary | |
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| The Visionary's Conflict: Personal Desires versus Transpersonal Service | |
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| Honoring the Visionary | |
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| Raging at God: The Sibyl | |
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| Priestess of Poetry: Anna Akhmatova | |
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| Glenna's Story: Resolving the Conflict | |
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| Embodying the Visions | |
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| Through the Madness | |
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| Moira's Journey | |
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| Invite Her to Lunch: The Madwoman at Your Table | |
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| Notes | |
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| Index | |