Clarissa Pinkola Estés’ Women Who Run With the Wolves is a cult feminist / Jungian / mythopoetic classic, built from folktales, fairy tales, animal stories, psychoanalytic reading, and the figure of the “Wild Woman” as an instinctive, creative, buried self.

It is very much of its era — big archetype energy, slightly incense-adjacent, not exactly allergic to grandeur — but it has endured because it gives myth a bodily charge rather than treating stories as decorative little moral cupboards. Estés, a poet, psychoanalyst, and cantadora storyteller, reads tales like “Bluebeard,” “Skeleton Woman,” and “Vasalisa” as maps for intuition, grief, desire, rage, creativity, and psychic survival.

For readers of Jung, myth, feminist psychology, folklore, recovery literature, and women writing themselves out of the 'she's nice' cage. 

Ballantine Books paperback edition. Copyright 1992 and 1995; first trade paperback edition September 1995; first mass market paperback edition January 1997. Shelf wear to the cover and edges, including light creasing and rubbing, but intact and readable. Interior pages show age-toning, as expected for this edition.