“Life throws up around us these temptations, these distractions, and the problem is to find the immovable center within. Then you can survive anything. Myth will help you do that. This doesn’t mean you shouldn’t go out on picket lines about at0omic research. Go ahead, but do it playfully. The universe is God’s play.” Joseph Campbell, Myths of Light

Tanagran Triton –  a sea-monster with the upper body of a man and a fishtail. A solitary creature with an appetite it is said to have red eyes, scaly fish skin, and vicious sharp teeth.

Monstrous Triton , Der Naturen Bloeme manuscript c. 1350, National Library of the Netherlands - www.theoi.com

Pausanias recounted the legend that “the women of Tanagra before the orgies of Dionysos went down to the sea to be purified, were attacked by the Triton as they were swimming, and prayed that Dionysos would come to their aid. The god, it is said, heard their cry and overcame the Triton in the fight.” (Pausanias, Description of Greece 9. 20. 4 (trans. Jones) Greek travelogue C2nd A.D.)

Tutorial 2 – Participatory Action Research, PhotoVoice and Video

Sunday, May 22^nd 3 – 5 pm

In this tutorial we will continue the theme of qualitative data collection using visual methods.  The hands-on exercises will combine ethnographic observation with photographic and video data collection techniques, and the discussion will focus on using these in the context of participatory action research (PAR).  You will be asked to bring a small number of objects to this session, as well as a digital camera, if you own one.

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Cost – $10

Montecito Public Library
1469 East Valley Road, Santa Barbara, CA

Space is limited – Register at rsvp@opusarchives.org
or 805.969.5750

Source: “Women and Men”  by Jane Hollister Wheelwright
Paper presented at the Analytical Psychology Club of San Francisco – January 14, 1977

I ask myself whether many of today’s women, in their struggle to free themselves from male domination, are not making the mistake of denying their own female natures. Have they perhaps ended up buying, hook, line and sinker, the patriarchal culture’s attitude and condescension toward the female? Are they being caught unwittingly by collective male prejudices, which in turn tend to be constellated and reinforced by women’s own downgrading of female values? And, as a result of all this, is their independence not turning out in actuality to be something of an illusion, an ersatz liberation? In other words, are they now in danger of going from the frying pan into the fire?

It would seem to me that after so many centuries of repression and/or devaluation of the female principle, the need for women today is to reassert this principle.  Rather than suppressing it in themselves, they need to allow it to live. If, at the same time, they consciously harness their instinctive male function, they will gain a true independence and individuality, a bona fide liberation. In this way, hopefully, men as well as women would regain appreciation and respect for themselves and for each other as total human beings. Toward this end, I submit the feminist movement might consider switching its slogan from “equal and alike” to “equal but different,” and adopt the approach of another beleaguered contingent of society by taking as their rally cry: “Female is beautiful!”