{"product_id":"cassandra-speaks-when-women-are-the-storytellers-the-human-story-changes-9780062887184","title":"Cassandra Speaks: When Women Are the Storytellers, the Human Story Changes","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCassandra Speaks: When Women Are the Storytellers, the Human Story Changes\u003c\/strong\u003e by Lesser, Elizabeth. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780062887184.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat story would Eve have\ntold about picking the apple? Why is Pandora blamed for opening the box? And\nwhat about the fate of Cassandra who was blessed with knowing the future but\ncursed so that no one believed her? What if women had been the storytellers?\n\nElizabeth Lesser believes\nthat if women’s voices had been equally heard and respected throughout history,\nhumankind would have followed different hero myths and guiding stories—stories\nthat value caretaking, champion compassion, and elevate communication over\nvengeance and violence.\n\nCassandra Speaks is about the\nstories we tell and how those stories become the culture. It’s about the\nstories we still blindly cling to, and the ones that cling to us: the origin tales,\nthe guiding myths, the religious parables, the literature and films and fairy\ntales passed down through the centuries about women and men, power and war, sex\nand love, and the values we live by.\nStories written mostly by men with lessons and laws for all of humanity.\nWe have outgrown so many of them, and still they endure. This book is about\nwhat happens when women are the storytellers too—when we speak from our\nauthentic voices, when we flex our values, when we become protagonists in the\ntales we tell about what it means to be human.\n\nLesser has walked two main\npaths in her life—the spiritual path and the feminist one—paths that sometimes\ncross but sometimes feel at cross-purposes. Cassandra Speaks is her\nextraordinary merging of the two. The bestselling author of Broken Open and\nMarrow, Lesser is a beloved spiritual writer, as well as a leading feminist\nthinker. In this book she gives equal voice to the cool water of her meditative\nself and the fire of her feminist self. With her trademark gifts of both humor\nand insight, she offers a vision that transcends the either\/or ideologies on\nboth sides of the gender debate.\n\nBrilliantly structured into\nthree distinct parts, Part One explores how history is carried forward through\nthe stories a culture tells and values, and what we can do to balance the\nscales. Part Two looks at women and power and expands what it means to be\ncourageous, daring, and strong. And Part Three offers “A Toolbox for Inner\nStrength.” Lesser argues that change in the culture starts with inner change,\nand that no one—woman or man—is immune to the corrupting influence of power.\nShe provides inner tools to help us be both strong-willed and kind-hearted.\n\nCassandra Speaks is a\nbeautifully balanced synthesis of storytelling, memoir, and cultural\nobservation. Women, men and all people will find themselves in the pages of\nthis book, and will come away strengthened, opened, and ready to work together\nto create a better world for all people.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Harper","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44424944812085,"sku":"ByrdShop_0062887181","price":27.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780062887184_02f38fc5-657f-4846-b904-139633a7ecb9.jpg?v=1778700752","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/cassandra-speaks-when-women-are-the-storytellers-the-human-story-changes-9780062887184","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}