Ripening

Sharon Blackie

‘Fairy tales matter because at the heart of every one of them is transformation.’ In a world in which all the old certainties seem to be crumbling, it's hard not to feel we have lost our way. In Ripening, Sharon Blackie insists that fairy tales are...

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Opening Credits

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Author’s note

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Chapter 1: What’s in a fairy tale?

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Chapter 2: How we decide who we are

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Chapter 3: The Fairy-Tale Heroine’s Journey

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Chapter 1: Budding: Girl, forming

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Chapter 2: Flowering: Girl, unfurling

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Chapter 2: Flowering: Girl, unfurling (continued)

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Chapter 3: Fruiting: Woman, creating

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Chapter 4: Ripening: Coming home to the Self

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Chapter 5: Seeding: The never-ending story

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Chapter 6: How to live well in dangerous times

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Chapter 1: Reimagining our stories

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Chapter 2: Cultivating your inner imaginarium

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Afterword: Why women need fairy tales now

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Closing Credits

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