A review by inkwellimps
Women Who Run with the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype by Clarissa Pinkola Estés

reflective slow-paced

3.25

The author goes over a few famous fairy tales and uses them as loose metaphors to convey her ideas about the "wild woman" archetype. I hadn't realized this was more of a self-help book rather than an academic piece, the thesis here being that the women reading should liberate themselves from the expectations of society, including the expectations of parents and potential husbands. (It's nothing I disagree with, but I do think it was geared towards a different generation considering that I haven't felt the pressures that the author is describing. I felt a little alienated as a reoccurring idea is how the most liberated women all have terrible relationships with their parents. At the closing of the book, Estés talks about raising the next generation of women without stifling them, so maybe I'm just a part of that lucky later generation?)

Listening to the audiobook felt VERY much like listening to a sermon in my opinion.