Stephanie Golden
Auteur de Slaying the Mermaid: Women and the Culture of Sacrifice
A propos de l'auteur
Stephanie Golden is a professional medical writer. (Bowker Author Biography)
Œuvres de Stephanie Golden
The Permanent Pain Cure 2 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Sexe
- female
Membres
Critiques
Listes
Prix et récompenses
Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 3
- Membres
- 66
- Popularité
- #259,059
- Évaluation
- 3.6
- Critiques
- 1
- ISBN
- 4
What I found particularly impressive was her multi-faceted and multi-layered approach. Remaining sensitive throughout to how (self-)sacrifice is internalized and manifests itself across cultural, racial and generational divides Golden draws on sources as varied as history, mythology, religious iconography, analytic psychology, biology and personal interviews, weaving what begin as disparate, seemingly unconnected strands into a seamless whole by the book’s end.
Although she strongly disputes essentialist theories about women’s innate masochism, this book is not a polemic. Rather, it is an uncommonly sensitive and sensible exploration of how women’s lives tend to be marked by self-denial and the ease with which we, often against our own best interests, put others’ needs and desires ahead of our own.… (plus d'informations)