Wise Women: Myths and stories for midlife and beyond - 'Extraordinary . . . beautifully and vividly retold stories' TLS
Autor Sharon Blackie, Angharad Wynneen Limba Engleză Paperback – 2 oct 2025
Prezentată sub forma unei culegeri de studii mitologice și repovestiri narative, Wise Women reprezintă o resursă esențială pentru reevaluarea arhetipurilor feminine în a doua jumătate a vieții. Ne-a atras atenția modul în care Sharon Blackie și Angharad Wynne reușesc să demonteze stereotipurile clasice ale basmelor, unde femeia în vârstă este adesea redusă la rolul de vrăjitoare malefică. În schimb, acest volum propune o galerie vibrantă de personaje — de la gigante și zâne-nașe la mentori spirituali — care întruchipează înțelepciunea, reziliența și umorul.
Considerăm că această lucrare este o evoluție naturală în opera lui Sharon Blackie, integrându-se perfect lângă Hagitude, unde autoarea explora conceptual recuperarea puterii feminine după vârsta de 50 de ani. Dacă în The Enchanted Life accentul cădea pe reconectarea cu lumea vie, aici accentul se mută pe narațiunile colective care fundamentează identitatea feminină matură. Stilul este riguros, dar accesibil, beneficiind de expertiza de psiholog și mitolog a autoarei pentru a oferi o structură analitică profundă fiecărei povești.
Ca alternativă la Ageless Women, Timeless Wisdom pentru cursurile de antropologie sau studii culturale, Wise Women aduce avantajul unei perspective europene și celtice bine ancorate, oferind un instrument de lucru actualizat pentru profesioniștii care explorează modul în care poveștile modelează percepția socială a îmbătrânirii. Cele șase ilustrații integrate completează experiența de lectură, oferind un suport vizual pentru procesul de reimaginare a acestor arhetipuri.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 0349018332
Pagini: 336
Ilustrații: 6 black and white drawings, integrated
Dimensiuni: 126 x 196 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Editura: Little Brown
Colecția Virago
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
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Descriere
'An extraordinary selection of stories ... beautifully and vividly retold' TLS
'Genius' Irish Times
'Treasure it!' Shahrukh Husain
'Wonderful' Victoria Smith
'The book I've been longing for' Jill Dawson
'Thrilling' Stella Duffy
This dazzling array of not-to-be-messed-with characters from a lost tradition of European myth and folklore - from ungainly giantesses and sequin-strewn fairy godmothers to misunderstood witches and craggy crones - provides inspiration for how women can walk boldly and live authentically in the second half of life.
'Features an exuberant cast ... The collection is precious, because it's the first time that these rare, patriarchy-surviving remnants of powerful elder female folk stories have been deliberately anthologised' Irish Times
'A fascinating collection of female myths and legends' Sara Sheridan
'I adored Wise Women' Eleanor Mills, author of Much More to Come: Lessons on the mayhem and magnificence of midlife
'Wondrously wise, clever and insightful as well as slyly funny' AG Slatter, author of The Briar Book of the Dead
Recenzii
Features an exuberant cast ... The collection is precious, because it's the first time that these rare, patriarchy-surviving remnants of powerful elder female folk stories have been deliberately anthologised ... Genius
A fascinating collection of female myths and legends that read like both dreams and nightmares
The book I've been longing for. I immediately want to give it to all my woman friends. It is so important and Sharon Blackie is exactly the right inspirational person to bring this topic and these new stories of old women to the culture
A wonderful collection of tales casting light on older women's desires and roles. Blackie's careful analysis of myth and fairy tale awakens a powerful sense of connection with our most difficult and our most nurturing selves. In a world that often struggles to acknowledge the richness and complexity of this stage of women's lives, I found these stories of carers, peacemakers, tricksters and more both comforting and inspiring. I will be recommending this to all the wise women I know!
This scrumptious new collection took me into much-loved tales from evergreen folklorists and story-gatherers and gifted me the bonus of meeting marvellous new beings. Nestled in insightful notes, this collection turns the spotlight on older women, celebrating their perspicacity and clout with the flair of a seasoned Broadway performance. This will be a smash-hit of a show starring mature and canny women in its second and third acts! Read it, absorb it, treasure it!
A MUST read for women in mid life. A beautiful weave of global myths that tell a story that speaks to us deeply. This is less a book and more a manifesto for mid life, from the mouths of the wise women who came before us. I devoured it!
The glorious possibility that we might age and ripen, age and grow greater, age and be-come, while also accepting that we will age and die - this is what I have come to expect from Sharon Blackie's expansive work, and why I am especially excited by this collection with Angharad Wynne that revisits our old stories, making them thrilling for us now, as the midlife and older wise women we are be-coming
I adored Wise Women - this is the missing piece of the jigsaw puzzle when it comes to reframing the narrative in our culture about the role of older females. Sharon Blackie has unearthed the tales we Queenagers need to see what we can be and become as we age. Essential reading. So important to reclaim these inspirational tales of what older women are for and the crucial roles that they play
This book populated my head with older women who stride, trick, battle, guide and outwit their way through the pages. The giant who forged Scotland's landscape with clay and her great hammer, the legendary warrior who trained the Irish hero Cuchullain in arts of combat and a mother who stood between armies and bared her breasts to prevent war between her sons. Reading it quenched a thirst I didn't know I had. Oh for a world where stories of the power and joy of women's elder years are celebrated everywhere
Wondrously wise, clever and insightful as well as slyly funny. Wise Women maps a new path made of old stories, offering an alternative for women in the second half of life - a reframing as a harvest season of experience rather than a dying off
This rich curation re-iterates the truth that women in midlife - and beyond - are a vital source of wisdom. Reading them ignited a fire in my belly!
'An extraordinary selection of stories ... beautifully and vividly retold' TLS
Wise Women is an unforgettable collection of retold myths and folk tales, celebrating the wisdom and power of women in midlife and beyond, from the award-winning author of Hagitude.
This dazzling array of not-to-be-messed-with characters from a lost tradition of European myth and folklore - from ungainly giantesses and sequin-strewn fairy godmothers to misunderstood witches and craggy crones - provides inspiration for how women can walk boldly and live authentically in the second half of life.
'Features an exuberant cast ... The collection is precious, because it's the first time that these rare, patriarchy-surviving remnants of powerful elder female folk stories have been deliberately anthologised' Irish Times
'A fascinating collection of female myths and legends' Sara Sheridan
'I adored Wise Women' Eleanor Mills, author of Much More to Come: Lessons on the mayhem and magnificence of midlife
'Wondrously wise, clever and insightful as well as slyly funny' AG Slatter, author of The Briar Book of the Dead