Reviews - Woman Hating: De la misogynie

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Woman Hating: De la misogynie

Harmony Devillard, Andrea Dworkin

3.71 AVERAGE

crownsofviolets1's review against another edition

4.0

4.5 until the last chapter which was 1

magsko's review against another edition

2.5

I really admire Andrea Dworkin. I think she’s brilliant. Most of it this work is. The problem is that like so much radical thought its prescriptions are lifestyle oriented such as abolishing the family and heterosexuality and some things far more bizarre than that.

moonselkie's review against another edition

1.5

dark reflective tense fast-paced

The first few chapters were interesting and had some good points, but when she started making up facts about the witch trials and the "Old Religion" in Chapter 7 (trust me, I have a postgraduate degree in magic and occult sciences where I studied the history of witchcraft)- it was clear she was relying on sources from Wiccan authors at the time that completely fabricated their own history, therefore erasing and appropriating from other cultures. Wow, I thought it couldn't get worse but it DEVOLVED and she ended the book with an endorsement of practices such as bestiality, incest, and other things I don't even want to mention because they are very icky and horrific! I literally wrote "NO NO NO GROSS" in the margins. Very yucky!!! Also some of the facts she presents in this book don't seem to check out, so I would definitely double-check the information before you cite her writing as a source or use it elsewhere.
Overall, there are a LOT of other books you can read if you would like to learn about feminism! I wouldn't recommend this one.