The Women's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets - Barbara G. Walker
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 The Women's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets - Barbara G. Walker
Newest Review: ... the sarcastic hostility toward Christianity, thought a lot of the linguistic analysis was on the ... more  ... Moses-came-from-Middlesbrough-because-bo th-start-with-"M" level, and didn't like the the faint but definite anti-homo bias: I could easily imagine a Goddess-worshipping, gynocentric society based on the ideas on this book persecuting homosexuals. Or perhaps the homo-hostility was muted out of good taste but founded on the solid fact that homos and patriarchialism haven't always kept their distance from each other in the past (ancient Greece, Roehm, and so on). In the end, however, I arrive at the usual negative conclusion about ...more |
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The Women's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets - Barbara G. Walker: Woman-Worship (174 words)
by - written on 03/08/00 (Useful, 54 readings)
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A tendentious book, very definitely, but it avoids the usual fault of feminist polemic, that is, consisting of dubious fact piled on dubious anecdote, by being the sort of book in which this isn't a fault. I relished the sarcastic hostility toward Christianity, thought a lot of the linguistic analysis was on the Moses-came-from-Middlesbrough-because-both-start-with-"M" level, and didn't like the the faint but definite anti-homo bias: I could easily imagine a Goddess-worshipping, gynocentric society based on the ideas on this book persecuting homosexuals. Or perhaps the homo-hostility was muted out of good taste but founded on the solid fact that homos ... Read the complete review
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