Awakening Minerva: The Power of Creativity in Women's Lives [Paperback]

Linda Firestone (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 15, 2006

All women are born with creative potential. Using simple exercisses, scientific data, and inspiring real-life stories, Awakening Minerva: The Power of Creativity in Women's Lives provides any woman seeking to understand her own creativity with the tools for such a journey.

"An important and timely work that will mean a great deal to eery woman who cares about the creative life." --Lee Cullum, columnist for Dallas Morning News.

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About the Author

Linda A. Firestone, Ph.D. has been a professional writer and published author for more than 25 years. During those years she has been a university professor and freelance writer. She also conducts workshops for business and personal growth focusing on creativity. She is President and founder of The Write Connections.

Product Details

• Paperback: 290 pages
• Publisher: Backinprint.com (November 15, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0595413412
• ISBN-13: 978-0595413416
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 5 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,771,230 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Provocative, inspirational-what a gift to women, November 22, 1997

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This review is from: Awakening Minerva: The Power of Creativity in Women's Lives (Paperback)

I can't believe how much of this book resonated inside of me. I learned so much fromthe stories and the information given by the author. She made so many things clear to me.I am glad I found this book

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Different Approach..., February 23, 2005

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This review is from: Awakening Minerva: The Power of Creativity in Women's Lives (Paperback)

I haven't quite finished the book yet, but it has done a great deal so far in helping me to look at creativity in a different light. Sometimes we categorize creativity as something limited to the arts or crafts, when creativity encompasses much, much more than that. I found this book, as with any book's possibility, a good way to expand your views on creativity, and in essence, expand how you view yourself as a creative being. The mention of Goddesses WHERE applied to each chapter, and examples of the powers of those Goddesses were applied to the women in each individual chapter of how they expressed those particular Goddess traits. Minverva's traits are vast. I would recommend reading it, but if you arent open to this type of thing, or at that place on your path, you wont get it.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars UNCOVERING THE "MYSTERIOUS FEMININE...", October 10, 2007

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Ana Fuentes "Ana M. Fuentes, a.k.a. DeVita" (Ft.Lauderdale, FL) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Awakening Minerva: The Power of Creativity in Women's Lives (Paperback)

Doesn't every woman with a pulse harbor a curiosity as to what her creative potential might be? If you answered "Yes, I do" then buy "Awakening Minerva" now. This well-researched, thought-provoking investigation of the female creative process speaks specifically to anyone who has ever pondered the "doorways to the mysterious feminine..." Written in clear, articulate language, the author recounts the sometimes unbelievable real life experiences of over twenty women who honestly bared their souls in the spirit of exploring their essential creative natures. What's most astonishing is the universality of thoughts and attitudes expressed by this multi-cultural cross-section of the female population. Regardless of race, class, socio-economic level and anything else you might imagine would create wildly divergent variations on a theme, these women all sang the same song of femaleness in almost uncanny unison. Clearly, the author's premise that creativity is gender-based--specifically, that it is not androgynous--becomes more and more convincing as the work progresses. "Awakening Minerva" must be read (studied, perhaps) slowly and deliberately, a chapter at a time. For anyone who longs to understand the mysterious magic inherent in female creativity, it's a wisely invested effort.