Re: Campbell and Myths

From: Greg Stafford <Greg_at_...>
Date: Wed, 09 May 2001 10:12:30 -0700


At 12:56 PM 5/9/2001 -0700, you wrote:
>Campbell's treatment of women's myth, and of women in general, is pretty
substandard. His own mythology of the journey of the hero is built around a strict division of the male/female realms.

I think you are making a pretty common mistake here. The "strict division of the male/female realms" is an archetype and has nothing to do whatsoever with attitude about or treatment of men an women.



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