Becoming a Goddess of Inner Poise : Spirituality for the Bridget Jones in All of Us - Freitas, Donna (San Francisco, CA : Jossey-Bass, 2004)
Bridget Jones : not your average spiritual sage -- The confessions of a neurotic diary-keeper -- Why telling our stories is a spiritual act -- Real feminists don't wear pink-or do they? -- Making spirituality fit for chicks in kitten heels -- "Oh God, why am I so unattractive?" -- Understanding the body as spiritual temple, not grotesque obstacle -- "Forgive us our trespasses!" -- When it comes to vice, we shall flourish as tulips! -- "Am irresistible sex goddess! hurrah!" -- When shagging and snogging is author : is this read as plural : are divine? if read as singular, would "shagging-snogging" work? -- "Up the fireman's pole" -- Career as spiritually liberating or barrier to happiness? -- Bread and wine among friends -- Finding spiritual community at a local bar -- "Have you noticed anything odd about your mother?" -- Facing family, martyr-mums, and smug marital obsessions on the road to enlightenment -- Tick-tock goes the biological clock -- Is chick motherhood a divine fantasy or just religious fiction? -- All goddesses have a romantic side or ten -- Love, Mr. Darcy, and loving Mr. Darcy -- "Human beings are like streams of water" -- Self-help, inner poise, and spiritual epiphany -- Epilogue : laughing all the way to my debutante ball -- A reader's guide to the heroines of chick lit -- The syllabus you won't find in a course on feminist studies -- Kindred spirits -- Conversations with some v. cool real-life chicks : Katrina Markoff, Meg Cabot, Jennifer Baumgardner, Amy Richards.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-237).
Keywords: Single women -- Religious life; Catholic women -- Religious life; Jones, Bridget (Fictitious character) -- Miscellanea