Called to Healing: Reflections on the Power of Earth's Stories in Women's Lives

By Jean Troy-Smith

Advocates and demonstrates women's path to personal wholeness and self-healing through an eco-feminist, reader-response analysis of four fictional narratives.

Women's paths to personal wholeness and self-healing are explored through an eco-feminist, reader-response analysis of four fictional narratives. Included in these are Mary Austin, Harriette Arnow, Ellen Galford, Ibis Gomez-Vega, Sally Carrighar.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0791429768
• ISBN13: 9780791429761
• Release Date: July 1996
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 205 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

Literary Alchemy

Called to Healing is an exquisite blend of memoir and literary study of the myths that define what Jean Troy-Smith calls the "power of earth stories" in our lives. She explains not only this earth force -- call it intuition or the whisper of the Divine -- in our contemporary (and harried)lives, but also the mythological context. I recently heard Jean speak at a conference and was amazed at her ability to explain this topic to an audience with warmth, humor and feeling, without giving a "lecture." Called to Healing is literary alchemy...