In the footsteps of the Heroine: the journey to Integral Feminism
(PhD thesis)
In the footsteps of the heroine
For Joseph Campbell the hero’s journey is the embodiment of the most significant of questions: “what it is to be human?”… “who am I?”. But, for women, this question has long been interrupted by the question “what is it to be a woman?”. Taking Wilber’s epic Sex, Ecology, Spirituality as a definite representation of the course of human evolutionary history, this work follows the figure of woman from the Archaic stage to the burgeoning Integral stage. This book explores the development of feminism, feminist thought and feminist spirituality from within the context of human evolutionary development. It brings integral theory into dialogue with contemporary feminist philosophies of religion, in order to develop an integral feminism that might adequately answer the question : ”who is woman?”. Throughout, this book follows the stories of women who have blazed a trail as spiritual heroes in order to draw a lineage of women heroes as a horizon of becoming that lights the way for women who walk the path today.
Integral Explorations of Sex, Gender and Spirituality:
Emerging Visions of Women and Men
Edited with Vanessa Fisher
forthcoming for SUNY Press’ Integral Theory series
The material collected in Integral Exploration represents the first fruits of an exciting new field of theory and practice. This anthology highlights the cutting edge discourses on sex, gender and spirituality that are emerging from within the Integral paradigm of theory and practice. This collection of essays from academic theorists and advanced practitioners brings the Integral perspective to bear on issues of gender, sexuality, feminism, the men’s movement and women and men’s spirituality, as they appear within disciplines as diverse as psychology, sociology, philosophy, religious studies and art theory.
This anthology will appeal to a broad range of scholars and practitioners working across a diverse field of disciplines and will feature a broad range of scholars and practitioners working across a diverse field of disciplines including: Ken Wilber, Elizabeth Debold ,Warren Farrell, Sarah Nicholson, Giles Herrada, R. Michael Fisher, Vanessa Fisher and Diane Musho Hamilton. We believe this book will find an extensive readership within Integral communities worldwide, as while the issues raised in this book are topical and highly contentious subjects, no other book has collected and dealt with the range of Integrally informed voices on these subjects in as comprehensive way.