Book Unread trade paperback, white covers. No names, clean text. Giftworthy!

Book Unread trade paperback, white covers. No names, clean text. Giftworthy! Works by Starhawk, Barbara Kingsolver, Bell Hooks, Laura S. Brown, Margaret Randall, et al. 13820 shelf.

First Edition, 1992. No spine creases & mild shelf wear on cover. Lightly

First Edition, 1992. No spine creases & mild shelf wear on cover. Lightly aged, name taped onto spine & written on endpage, no marks in text. "From Publishers Weekly: Ms. magazine founder Steinem sets the tone in her foreword for this excellent collection of essays: "Make no mistake about it: women want a men's movement." As the nearly 20 articles by some of today's prominent feminists (bell hooks, Rosemary Radford Reuther, Ursula Le Guin) reveal, however, contemporary women are very particular about the kind of men's movement they desire--not the drum-thumping "wild man" movement espoused by Robert Bly and his ilk. Women want, as Starhawk points out, a movement in which men give up domination in favor of creative partnership. They want a movement in which men seek not a "kinder, gentler patriarchy, " as Hagan calls it in her brief but pointed introduction, but to get in touch with their feminine side. The dynamics of the Bly-type movement are carefully analyzed here (e.g. Margaret Randall's deft analysis of how Bly blames women for the "softness" of contemporary men). By far the best contribution in the volume is that of Jane Caputi and Gordene A. MacKenzie, who show how images of women are manipulated or even excluded from much of our popular culture. Hagan wrote Prayers to the Moon. Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc." "From Library Journal: This collection contains some 19 uneven essays by women who are immersed in the feminist culture. Editor Hagan assumes that the reader is familiar with the men's movement. She does not provide a comprehensive introduction to the subject nor a working definition of the term. Only in the essay by Riane Eisler does the uninitiated reader gain some understanding of the issues. Most of the essays are passionately written but are too esoteric to influence anyone not already committed to the cause. Gloria Steinem provides a foreword which seems to imply that violence and dominant behavior by men are the issues addressed by this amorphous movement. The book concludes with the editor's thanks to a group of women for "teaching me to internalize the powerful combination of lesbian vision and radical feminist thought." For comprehensive collections only. Carol R. Glatt, VA Medical Ctr. Lib., Philadelphia. Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc."