Lectures For Lifelong Learners!

When we look to mythology along with popular culture to find narratives of female power we often only find evil witches, dread monsters, lovestruck girls, and subordinated helpmeets. Yet these are often patriarchal distortions of originally powerful Goddesses.  In this illustrated talk, Jane Caputi, PhD, and author of Goddesses and Monsters: Women, Myth, Power and Popular Culture, reverses the reversals of patriarchal myth and unearths the Goddess and female-power origins of the witch, the mermaid, Medusa and Eve.