Sirene e altri mostri. Donne della mitologia che hanno sfidato il potere maschile

This felt really confused....and was a very big letdown. What was pitched as a reflective and deep look at the Greek mythology tropes and legends that have permeated and persisted in our culture and have structurally defined and shaped our perceptions of women came across as a jumbled mess with a la Leggi tutto

TL;DR: I hated this book, which goes wrong on almost every conceivable level. But, I will say, the artwork in it is really nice, so please flip through it for the pretty illustrations by Samira Ingold and then go on to listen to Let's Talk About Myth's Baby!" (for episodes covering not only the stor Leggi tutto

„Opo­wie­ści o po­two­rach ro­dza­ju żeń­skie­go, isto­tach za bar­dzo wul­gar­nych, za bar­dzo pod­stęp­nych, za bar­dzo za­chłan­nych, za bar­dzo by­strych, by im to wy­szło na zdro­wie, to hi­sto­rie opo­wia­da­ne przez męż­czyzn.“ Dawno nie spotkałam się ze zbiorem feministycznych tekstów, któryc Leggi tutto

This book was marketed so wrong, I thought it was about the mythology of monsters and monstrous women, but it is more like a woke twitter post with anecdotes about the author's life with a brief mention of the actual mythology.

2.5 stars Before you look at the rating and go yikes, I'd love to point out that this low rating is 100% a "me" problem and not the fault of the book. It was a lot of little things that came together (or didn't come together) that prevented me from enjoying it. I don't have too much to say about this Leggi tutto

solid feminist nonfiction !

Nie rozumiem komentarzy i ostrzeżeń, że książka Zimmerman jest źle reklamowana, bo wcale nie jest o mitologii. Przecież jest. Autorka analizuje w perspektywie feministycznej postaci potwór z greckiej i rzymskiej mitologii, tj. ukazując, jakie patriarchalne dyskursy kryją się pod mitycznymi metaforam Leggi tutto