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Understanding The Heroine’s Journey Can Help You Unlock Your Feminine Power
What do Buffy Summers, Dorothy Gale, and Katniss Everdeen all have in common? All of them are females who undergo a traditionally male experience: the hero’s quest. But every heroine deserves her own distinct journey, and the hero’s quest as we know it doesn’t fully reflect what it means to be an embodiment, fictional or otherwise, of the feminine.
By Gwen Farrell4 min read
A quest of epic proportions (like Beowulf or Gilgamesh or King Arthur’s knights) is often a male adventure, and psychotherapist Maureen Murdock recognized this. Murdock was a devotee of Joseph Campbell, a writer who intently focused on the concept of the hero’s quest throughout history and literature, but Murdock identified the need for a female perspective.