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3.56 AVERAGE
3.56 AVERAGE
While I was reading this book, I didn't find it truly mind-opening, but, as I continued to read, I found that I was looking at the world differently. A classic!
Quite redundant at times, but there were many great passages that I highlighted throughout the book.
Interesting in terms of understanding the thought processes of feminists who came before you. Did enjoy many parts of it. However, the focus on demonizing gay men and transgender women was very off putting and soured the book for me.
adventurous
challenging
emotional
informative
inspiring
medium-paced
challenging
reflective
slow-paced
challenging
inspiring
reflective
slow-paced
A groundbreaking analysis of womens oppression drawing on evidence from different times and cultures about male control and violence against women, and how religion, culture, mythology shape a male dominated society. She encourages women to rethink, to be creative, to spin into our own ideas and reality. Its tough to read about how women have been oppressed but she offers us a route to liberation
Mary Daly is a terf. don't read this. while her overall analysis of many subjects is very interesting and written in a way that is easy to understand, it is hard to look past the blatant transphobia. i did enjoy her writing up to the point where she started being transphobic, but from there it all went downhill.
challenging
dark
funny
informative
reflective
sad
slow-paced
DNF at 100 pages. This was my second try at this book and it looks like it might take a third (and fourth and fifth...) to plow all the way through it. I have mixed feelings -- when Daly speaks clearly about oppression, it's really up there among the theory I've read. She indisputably knows her stuff backwards and forwards, but the writing is just so 70s that I get bogged down. I understand Hag-ography and Crone-ology (.... I think), but I trip over them, and the excessive alliteration and the matriarchal far history she talks about -- I've checked a few but not all of her sources and it just seems more hopeful than real to me. Also the persistent transphobia is like stubbing a toe each time. I think there's a lot in Gyn/Ecology that's worth the work, but I need to work up to it some more.
Very (white) Second Wave (in the worst ways)--transphobic, white supremacist, etc.
But some critiques of civic/imperial Christianity hold up.
But some critiques of civic/imperial Christianity hold up.