Marion Woodman
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| Marion Woodman | |
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| Born | August 15, 1928 London, Ontario, Canada[1] |
| Occupation | Nonfiction writer |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Subjects | Psychology, eating disorders, women's issues, sexuality |
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Marion Woodman, born August 15, 1928,[1] is a Canadian mythopoetic author and women's movement figure. She is a Jungian analyst trained at the Jung Institute in Zürich, Switzerland. Among her collaborations with other authors she has written with Thomas Moore, Jill Mellick and Robert Bly. Her brothers are; the late Canadian actor Bruce Boa, and Jungian analyst Fraser Boa.
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[edit] Biography
Her husband is Dr. Ross Woodman, currently an English professor at the University of Western Ontario. On November 7, 1993, she was diagnosed with uterine cancer. The following two years of cancer treatment she recorded in a journal, which later was published as Bone: Dying into Life.
[edit] Notable books
- The Owl Was a Baker's Daughter : Obesity, Anorexia Nervosa, and the Repressed Feminine, 1980 Inner City Books. ISBN 0-919123-03-1
- Addiction to Perfection : The Still Unravished Bride, 1982 Inner City Books. ISBN 0-919123-11-2
- The Pregnant Virgin : A Process of Psychological Transformation, 1985 Inner City Books. ISBN 0-919123-20-1
- The Ravaged Bridegroom : Masculinity in Women, 1990 Inner City Books. ISBN 0-919123-42-2
- Leaving My Father's House : A Journey to Conscious Femininity (co-authored with Kate Danson, Mary Hamilton, Rita Greer Allen), 1992 Shambhala Publications. ISBN 0-87773-896-3 (PB edition)
- Conscious Femininity : Interviews With Marion Woodman, 1993 Inner City Books. ISBN 0-919123-59-7
- Dancing in the Flames : The Dark Goddess in the Transformation of Consciousness (co-authored with Elinor Dickson), 1996 Shambhala Publications. ISBN 1-57062-313-9 (PB edition)
- Coming Home to Myself : Daily Reflections for a Woman's Body and Soul (co-authored with Jill Mellick), April 2001 (paperback ed.) Conari Press. ISBN 1-57324-566-6
- The Art of Dreaming, by Jill Mellick (with a foreword by Woodman)
- The Maiden King : The Reunion of Masculine and Feminine (co-authored with Robert Bly), November 1998, Henry Holt & Co; ISBN 0-8050-5777-3
- Bone: Dying into Life, 2000 Viking Press; ISBN 0-670-89374-9
[edit] References
- ^ a b "Birth data for Marion Woodman" (HTML). http://www.astrotheme.fr/en/celestar/portrait.php?info=1&clef=NXce2g4227c2. Retrieved 2007-04-15.
[edit] External links
- Marion Woodman Foundation website
- MenWeb - Interview with Marion Woodman
- Maclean's Magazine article on Marion Woodman
- BodySoul Europe - The European Marion Woodman-related Communication Network
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