Women Who Run With the Wolves

Jungian analyst and cantadora Clarissa Pinkola Estés reads folk tales from many cultures, Bluebeard, Vasalisa, the Handless Maiden, as maps of the inner life, arguing that women carry an instinctual Wild Woman nature that domestication teaches them to bury. Part storytelling, part psychology, it has stayed in print for three decades. Emma Watson chose it for Our Shared Shelf, noting that wolves and women share playfulness, strength, curiosity and bravery.