Changing Woman and Her Sisters: Feminine Aspects of Selves and Deities

I. IntroductionII. From the First ---First Woman ---Salt WomanIII. Incompleteness ---Changing Bear Maiden ---Snapping V*gina IV. Towards Wholeness ---Spider Woman ---Changing Woman ---Snake WomanPostludeReferences and Bibliography

Throughout the book, "Changing Women and Her Sisters," Sheila Moon retells Native American stories of feminine deities. She gives us these stories not as an alternative to masculine images but to help us see the need for balance of the masculine and feminine. In the process she also explores aspects of the negative and the positive feminine.Sheila Moon does not simply retell the stories though, but instead integrates them with the dreams and experiences of modern day people. She links these stories with stories from other continents as we realize these myths are an integral part of humanity's search for meaning.The reader is drawn into the stories of First Women, Salt Woman, Changing-Bear-Maiden, Spider Woman and Changing Woman and discovers the beautiful variety of the feminine found there.