![]() ![]() ![]() Sandy surprises her by saying he has realized how he has been defending the status quo and excluding her experience. She learns much and pours out everything when she returns. She takes time off for a spiritual retreat, which Sandy resents. ![]() Feminist works of art, ancient and modern, move her and inspire her to study. In the forest at the monastery, Sue builds a Big Bird nest and begins nurturing her Feminine Wound. ![]() At a retreat, she embarrasses herself by introducing herself as Fr. Sue's quest begins slowly when she sees herself giving birth to herself in a dream. Sandy is not rigid or authoritarian, never demands that Sue "submit," but he initially resists her journey based on non-verbalized fears about what will happen to their relationship. They are married 19 years when Sue's quest begins. Husband Sandy is a Southern Baptist minister, religion teacher, and college chaplain. Sue Monk Kidd, a successful freelance writer of articles for Christian publications and lecturer on spirituality begins to feel constricted by her Southern Baptist faith and examining earlier mystical traditions and liturgical churches leaves her feeling left out as a woman. THE DANCE OF THE DISSIDENT DAUGHTER is writer Sue Monk Kidd's memoir of her odyssey of feminist rebirth, shaking off the chains of patriarchy, learning to embrace her feminine soul, and telling the world some badly-needed truths. ![]()
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