Creation and Procreation
Feminist Reflections on Mythologies of Cosmogony and Parturition
1st Edition
Published on 11. November 2016
304 pages
978-1-5128-0900-8 (ISBN)
Description
This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.
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Series
Edition
Reprint 2016
Language
English
Place of publication
Pennsylvania
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
22 illus.
22 illus.
ISBN-13
978-1-5128-0900-8 (9781512809008)
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Marta Weigle
Creation and Procreation
Feminist Reflections on Mythologies of Cosmogony and Parturition
Book
11/1989
University of Pennsylvania Press
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Creation and Procreation
Feminist Reflections on Mythologies of Cosmogony and Parturition
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11/1989
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Preface
- 1 Introduction: Notes on Cosmogony and Creativity
- 2 Spiders and Spinsters in Creation Mythology
- 3 Creator and Procreator
- 4 Impregnation and Conception
- 4 Impregnation and Conception
- 6 Couvade and Parturition
- 7 Midwifery and the Dialogue of Mythos and Mundus
- Appendix: Selected Texts of Creation and Procreation
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Permissions
- Index
