Q for women: how would Campbell's monomyth/hero's journey be different if it were the heroine's journey? Opinions or citations on this?
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it's more the narrative form itself than the specific content
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male departing from & defining himself against the background of communal life via hero's journey
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then returning with some sort of "prize" that establishes title and status
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yes, that's campbell 101... what's your point here, re: women's version?
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point being I don't think there could really *be* a women's version, if it kept the same form
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I suspect the woman version is collective not individualistic, essential contradiction with "hero"
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not necessarily collectivist, but I'd think motherhood would be a proto-narrative

