Awakening Minerva: The Power of Creativity in Women's Lives

By Linda A. Firestone and Ph.D. Firestone, Linda A.

Book Overview

All women are born with creative potential. Using simple exercisses, scientific data, and inspiring real-life stories, Awakening Minerva: The Power of Creativity in Women's Lives provides any woman... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0446670456
• ISBN13: 9780446670456
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Grand Central Pub
• Length: 275 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 6.0" x 0.8" x 5.3"

Customer Reviews

UNCOVERING THE "MYSTERIOUS FEMININE..."

Doesn't every woman with a pulse harbor a curiosity as to what her creative potential might be? If you answered "Yes, I do" then buy "Awakening Minerva" now. This well-researched, thought-provoking investigation of the female creative process speaks specifically to anyone who has ever pondered the "doorways to the mysterious feminine..." Written in clear, articulate language, the author recounts the sometimes unbelievable real life experiences of over twenty women who honestly bared their souls in the spirit of exploring their essential creative natures. What's most astonishing is the universality of thoughts and attitudes expressed by this multi-cultural cross-section of the female population. Regardless of race, class, socio-economic level and anything else you might imagine would create wildly divergent variations on a theme, these women all sang the same song of femaleness in almost uncanny unison. Clearly, the author's premise that creativity is gender-based--specifically, that it is not androgynous--becomes more and more convincing as the work progresses. "Awakening Minerva" must be read (studied, perhaps) slowly and deliberately, a chapter at a time. For anyone who longs to understand the mysterious magic inherent in female creativity, it's a wisely invested effort.

A Different Approach...

I haven't quite finished the book yet, but it has done a great deal so far in helping me to look at creativity in a different light. Sometimes we categorize creativity as something limited to the arts or crafts, when creativity encompasses much, much more than that. I found this book, as with any book's possibility, a good way to expand your views on creativity, and in essence, expand how you view yourself as a creative being. The mention of Goddesses WHERE applied to each chapter, and examples of the powers of those Goddesses were applied to the women in each individual chapter of how they expressed those particular Goddess traits. Minverva's traits are vast. I would recommend reading it, but if you arent open to this type of thing, or at that place on your path, you wont get it.

Provocative, inspirational-what a gift to women

I can't believe how much of this book resonated inside of me. I learned so much fromthe stories and the information given by the author. She made so many things clear to me.I am glad I found this book