Persephone at Mid-Life: Revisiting Feminist Archetypal Theory in a Personal Journey Through Menopause

This article suggests that feminist archetypal theory provides a helpful and empowering framework through which to understand embodied change as experienced in contemporary times. A mainstream approach associated with second-wave feminism, it has fallen victim to poststructuralist critiques and is r...

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1. VerfasserIn: Pickard, Susan (VerfasserIn)
Medienart: Elektronisch Aufsatz
Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: Sage 2024
In: Feminist theology
Jahr: 2024, Band: 32, Heft: 2, Seiten: 132-146
RelBib Classification:FD Kontextuelle Theologie
NBE Anthropologie
ZB Soziologie
weitere Schlagwörter:B Moon
B Menopause
B Goddess
B Archetypal feminist theory
B Quest
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Zusammenfassung:This article suggests that feminist archetypal theory provides a helpful and empowering framework through which to understand embodied change as experienced in contemporary times. A mainstream approach associated with second-wave feminism, it has fallen victim to poststructuralist critiques and is rarely used, despite a renewed popularity of goddess archetypes in broader lay culture. I argue that this framework deserves revisiting as, in generating positive images and plots, it can serve as a source of empowerment and strength for women and especially so where hegemonic contemporary discourses are overwhelmingly negative and medicalised, as in the case of menopause. Using auto-ethnographic methods, I illustrate this with reference to my own lived experience of menopausal transition. Finally, and just as importantly, I show how this approach configures a different and more holistic kind of knowledge that recognises connection, relationality and communion of self, others and world, rather than separation and domination.
ISSN:1745-5189
Enthält:Enthalten in: Feminist theology
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1177/09667350231208137