Why do so many women now feel so conflicted about their roles, so cut off from sources of spiritual nourishment in their lives? More important, what can they do about it? In The Way of Woman, Helen M. Luke has brought six decades of experience to bear in answering these two questions, and in gently, clearly, and thoughtfully guiding women on a path to the lasting personal fulfillment that can only come through understanding one's essential feminine nature.

The equality of the two sexes should be a given, for it is an eternal truth, but equality and similarity are not the same thing: men and women are psychically and spiritually different - profoundly so. A woman must live her life as a woman, with a woman's values, or she will fail. In The Way of Woman, Helen M. Luke draws on a rich trove of feminine images and symbols from the Bible, mythology, folklore, Greek tragedies, and modern poetry to explain what these lost values are, and to show women how they can awaken them within themselves. She speaks with the power of a true sage on the issues of community, relationships, the women's movement, marriage and divorce, and mothering.