| The Bounty of Wild Woman | |
| Foreword | xvii |
| Introduction: Singing Over the Bones | 1 |
| The Stories | |
1. | The Howl: Resurrection of the Wild Woman | 21 |
| La Loba, The Wolf Woman | |
| The Four Rabbinim | |
2. | Stalking the Intruder: the Beginning Initiation | 35 |
| Bluebeard | |
| The Natural Predator of the Psyche | |
| Naive Women as Prey | |
| The Key to Knowing: The Importance of Snuffling | |
| The Animal Groom | |
| Blood Scent | |
| Backtracking and Looping | |
| Giving the Cry | |
| The Sin-eaters | |
| The Dark Man in Women's Dreams | |
3. | Nosing Out the Facts: the Retrieval of Intuition as Initiation | 70 |
| The Doll in Her Pocket: Vasalisa the Wise | |
Task 1 | Allowing the Too-Good Mother to Die | |
Task 2 | Exposing the Crude Shadow | |
Task 3 | Navigating in the Dark | |
Task 4 | Facing the Wild Hag | |
Task 5 | Serving the Non-Rational | |
Task 6 | Separating This from That | |
Task 7 | Asking the Mysteries | |
Task 8 | Standing on All Fours | |
Task 9 | Recasting the Shadow | |
4. | The Mate: Union with the Other | 111 |
| Hymn for the Wild Man: Manawee | |
| The Dual Nature of Women | |
| The Power of Two | |
| The Power of Name | |
| The Tenacious Dog Nature | |
| Creeping Seductive Appetite | |
| Achieving Fierceness | |
| The Interior Woman | |
5. | Hunting: When the Heart is a Lonely Hunter | 127 |
| Skeleton Woman: Facing the Life/Death/Life Nature of Love | |
| Death in the House of Love | |
| The First Phases of Love | |
| The Accidental Finding of Treasure | |
| The Chase and the Hiding | |
| Untangling the Skeleton | |
| The Sleep of Trust | |
| Giving the Tear | |
| The Later Phases of Love | |
| Heart as Drum and Singing Up | |
| The Dance of Body and Soul | |
6. | Finding One's Pack: Belonging as Blessing | 164 |
| The Ugly Duckling | |
| Exile of the Unmatched Child | |
| Kinds of Mothers | |
| The Ambivalent Mother | |
| The Collapsed Mother | |
| The Child Mother and the Unmothered Mother | |
| The Strong Mother, The Strong Child | |
| Bad Company | |
| Not Looking Right | |
| Frozen Feeling, Frozen Creativity | |
| The Passing Stranger | |
| Exile as Boon | |
| The Uncombed Cats and Cross-Eyed Hens of the World | |
| Remembrance and Continuance No Matter What | |
| Love for the Soul | |
| The Mistaken Zygote | |
7. | Joyous Body: the Wild Flesh | 197 |
| Body Talk | |
| The Body in Fairy Tales | |
| The Power of the Haunches | |
| La Mariposa, Butterfly Woman | |
8. | Self-Preservation: Identifying Leg Traps, Cages, and Poisoned Batt | 213 |
| The Feral Woman | |
| The Red Shoes | |
| Brutal Loss in Fairy Tales | |
| The Handmade Red Shoes | |
| The Traps | |
Trap #1 | The Gilded Carriage, the Devalued Life | |
Trap #2 | The Dry Old Woman, the Senescent Force | |
Trap #3 | Burning the Treasure, Hambre del Alma, Soul Famine | |
Trap #4 | Injury to Basic Instinct, the Consequence of Capture | |
Trap #5 | Trying to Sneak a Secret Life, Split in Two | |
Trap #6 | Cringing Before the Collective, Shadow Rebellion | |
Trap #7 | Faking It, Trying to be Good, Normalizing the Abnormal | |
Trap #8 | Dancing Out of Control, Obsession and Addiction | |
| Addiction | |
| At the Executioner's House | |
| Trying to Take Shoes Off, Too Late | |
| Returning to Life Made by Hand, Healing Injured Instincts | |
9. | Homing: Returning to Oneself | 255 |
| Sealskin, Soulskin | |
| Loss of Sense of Soul as Initiation | |
| Losing One's Pelt | |
| The Lonely Man | |
| The Spirit Child | |
| Drying Out and Crippling | |
| Hearing the Old One's Call | |
| Staying Overlong | |
| Cutting Loose, Diving In | |
| The Medial Woman: Breathing Under Water | |
| Surfacing | |
| The Practice of Intentional Solitude | |
| Women's Innate Ecology | |
10. | Clear Water: Nourishing the Creative Life | 297 |
| La Llorona | |
| The Pollution of the Wild Soul | |
| Poison in the River | |
| Fire on the River | |
| The Man on the River | |
| Taking Back the River | |
| Focus and the Fantasy Mill | |
| The Little Match Girl | |
| Staving Off Creative Fantasy | |
| Renewing the Creative Fire | |
| The Three Gold Hairs | |
11. | Heat: Retrieving a Sacred Sexuality | 334 |
| The Dirty Goddesses | |
| Baubo: The Belly Goddess | |
| Coyote Dick | |
| A Trip to Rwanda | |
12. | Marking Territory: the Boundaries of Rage and Forgiveness | 346 |
| The Crescent Moon Bear | |
| Rage as Teacher | |
| Bringing in the Healer: Climbing the Mountain | |
| The Spirit Bear | |
| The Transformative Fire and Right Action | |
| Righteous Rage | |
| The Withered Trees | |
| Descansos | |
| Injured Instinct and Rage | |
| Collective Rage | |
| Stuck in Old Rage | |
| Four Stages of Forgiveness | |
13. | Battle Scars: Membership in the Scar Clan | 374 |
| Secrets as Slayers | |
| The Dead Zone | |
| The Woman With Hair of Gold | |
| The Scapecoat | |
14. | La Selva Subterranea: Initiation in the Underground Forest | 387 |
| The Handless Maiden | |
Stage 1 | The Bargain Without Knowing | |
Stage 2 | The Dismemberment | |
Stage 3 | The Wandering | |
Stage 4 | Finding Love in the Underworld | |
Stage 5 | The Harrowing of the Soul | |
Stage 6 | The Realm of the Wild Woman | |
Stage 7 | The Wild Bride and Bridegroom | |
15. | Shadowing: Canto Hondo, the Deep Song | 456 |
16. | The Wolf's Eyelash | 462 |
| Afterword: Story as Medicine | 466 |
| Addendum | 474 |
| Notes | 479 |
| Education of a Young Wolf: A Bibliography | 507 |
| Acknowledgments | 514 |
| Index | 519 |