Diana Paxson's " Deor" has a strong flavor of Montival about it right up to the mini-Norman Arminger. Thora was an interesting character. Not as strong in her thinking as I would have thought a Bearkiller would be, and yet she is strong in her unconscious belief that she's as safe as houses. Paxson throws in an unexpected surprise ending and there's a good bit of melodrama. I'd've liked to see more polishing on this. I'll be curious to learn if Deor takes Thora up on her offer. Thank you to William Morrow for a widget of the ARC through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Expected Publication Date: 5/3/22. hooks war ein sehr spiritueller Mensch, daher sind viele ihrer "Lösungsansätze" sehr abstrakt und spirituell. Ich konnte damit leider wenig anfangen und fand ihre Ideen auch nicht gut praktisch umsetzbar, bspw. "Männer müssen hören, dass ihre Seelen wichtig sind und dass die Pflege ihrer Seelen die wichtigste Aufgabe ihres Daseins ist." Okay? Dann fang' ich mal an, dass den Männern in meiner Umgebung zu erzählen ...

When it comes to her ideas and solutions she stays extremely vague: "Love your spouse", "Dont use violence", "Love your child", "Let your child develope freely", "Dont beat your wife", "Have compession" ... you get the point. Of course everyone would agree with that. But also everyone already knew that. In fact, at many points in the book, bell hooks seems to take a tremendous leap from progressive leftism to conservative fundamentalism, railing against Harry Potter, The Incredible Hulk, Power Rangers, The Matrix, sex, pornography, rap music, and more. Germaine Greer has given women just the book they need for this time of their lives. Read it, pass it on, talk about it, disagree with it, keep the circle going' Washington Post Learning to express the pain I've felt without shame, and wield my anger not against myself (or others) but against patriarchal society, isn't something that can change overnight. But bell hooks' wisdom has opened up new possibilities for me and for all men, and it's up to us to take the initiative, educate ourselves, get in touch with our own emotions, our own human-ness and connection to others in a non-dominating way, and work together in love and resistance. We don't just owe it to women, trans and genderqueer folks, we owe it to ourselves. Disconnection is not fallout from traditional masculinity. Disconnection *is* masculinity.” (p. 61)Its singular message is that patriarchy harms men almost as much as it harms women (though in different ways). Feminism is not women working against men, but women and men who value love working against men and women who value domination. In the past I had "understood" patriarchy as something that primarily only affected women, and saw my job mostly as limiting the damage done to the women in my life and organizing. bell hooks pushed me to look inside myself first and foremost and see how this system has terrorized me personally, and how challenging patriarchy is necessary for my own liberation, as well as the liberation of all men, and everybody.

That’s where I perform the human sacrifices,” Harriett said, as though she’d been reading Nessa’s mind.

Hard to review. Toward the end, she got so "right on!" that I wanted to cheer. I wanted to pull out quotes and send them to friends. To cherish the book forever for reading and re-reading. Harriett is a former advertising director who was recently let go from her lucrative job. Her marriage is done, and nobody has seen her for months. Her garden looks out of control to the residents of Mattaulk in Long Island. That garden will end up being very useful. At a few points in the book, hooks blames pornography and ‘excessive’ (e.g. non-monogamous) sex for furthering and reinforcing patriarchy. This may often be true, but porn and sex can also act as liberatory tools for men who have been taught to feel ashamed of their bodies. Instead of exploring the potentially positive uses of porn and non-monogamous, consensual sex, hooks casts them as universally negative. She fails to imagine a world in which individuals can be fully loving and devoted to a partner and still explore fulfilling sexual relationships with others. Even her use of the phrase “dominator culture”, though apt, overlooks people who engage in consensual dom-sub play in BDSM. Her tone veers uncomfortably close to slut-shaming. It's sloppy and lazy and it means that "The Will to Change" is not, as the cover proclaims, actually a work of social science, because it doesn't even aspire to social scientific methodology. Instead, it's a sermon or moral philosophy, and not especially thoughtful or careful moral philosophy. Harriett glanced down at them. “No, I suspect not,” she replied. “They aren’t native to this part of the world.”