The Long journey home Book

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction	1
	The Greek Literary Tradition	9
	The Homeric "Hymn to Demeter"	26
	The Rape of Proserpine	39
	Art and Ritual	49
	Mythography and Depth Psychology	59
	The Woman's Experience of Herself and the Eleusinian Mysteries	72
	Women's Re-visionings	77
	Demeter	84
	Persephone	88
	A Richly Filled Cornucopia	101
	In Search of a Prepatriachal Version	103
	The Myth of Demeter and Persephone	109
	The Mother-Daughter Bond	114
	Three Poems	119
	The Crux	123
	Learning from My Mother Dying	125
	Love Among Women	136
	The Return to the Mother	140
	Rape and Patriarchal Violation	146
	Demeter, Persephone, and the Pedagogy of Archetypal Empowerment	149
	The Two Goddesses	155
	Puberty Rites	161
	The Rape of Persephone	166
	Cycles of Becoming	173
	Midlife Passage	186
	Mother and Daughter Mysteries	190
	The Rape of Demeter/Persephone and Neurosis	197
	Demeter's Folly: Experiencing Loss in Middle Life	206
	Persephone in Hades	219
	Hekate, Rhea, and Baubo: Perspectives on Menopause	233
	Glimpses of a Postpatriarchal World	243
	Sightings of Maternal Rage and Paternal Love in the Homeric "Hymn to Demeter"	248
	Hades Speaks	254
	Concern for the Earth	260
	An Ecofeminist Perspective on the Demeter-Persephone Myth	262
	A New Telling of the Myth	271
	Long Journey Home	273
	About the Contributors	291
	Further Reading	295
	Credits	299