“The Handless Maiden,” collected by the Brothers Grimm, is one of the most complete stories of feminine individuation in fairy tales. It addresses the wounding of the feminine by the patriarchal shadow, but it also...

An immense billboard looms over Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles. On it, a woman appears to be consumed with deep sorrow, hot tears streaming down her cheeks. A crown of flowers rests ironically upon her...

[caption id="attachment_17852" align="alignright" width="300"] The reborn goddess (Persephone) as a sheaf of wheat (carved marble relief, Classical, Eleusis, Greece. c. fifth century b.c.)[/caption] My grandfather was a farmer in rural Minnesota on land that was...