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039 9 _y200904151105
_zkamarudin
090 _aBX2373.S55
_bF74 2004
100 1 _aFreitas, Donna
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aBecoming a Goddess of Inner Poise :
_bSpirituality for the Bridget Jones in All of Us /
_cDonna Freitas.
250 _aFirst edition
264 1 _aSan Francisco, CA :
_bJossey-Bass,
_cc2004.
300 _axxvii, 239 pages :
_billustrations ;
_c23 cm.
336 _atext
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_2rdacarrier
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 213-237).
505 _aBridget 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.
650 1 0 _aSingle women
_xReligious life.
650 2 0 _aCatholic women
_xReligious life.
650 2 0 _aJones, Bridget (Fictitious character)
_vMiscellanea.
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