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Kissing the Hag: The Dark Goddess and the Unacceptable Nature of Woman Kindle Edition
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherMoon Books
- Publication dateNovember 1, 2012
- File size492 KB
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- ASIN : B00AAZJBGE
- Publisher : Moon Books (November 1, 2012)
- Publication date : November 1, 2012
- Language : English
- File size : 492 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
- Print length : 240 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: #1,435,169 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #572 in Shamanism (Kindle Store)
- #973 in Women's Personal Spiritual Growth
- #1,764 in Shamanism (Books)
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Feminist, pagan and all around honest, I intend to insist that my daughters read this. I just wish I'd had it to read it 30 years ago.
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I am a bloke and this book confronted the hell out of me, and I shouldn’t be writing a review. But I am because nobody else has, and you need to know how good this book is. It's a bit of a masterpiece.
The author answers the question, ‘What do women want?’ way too early. Well, way too early for a male reader at least. But reminding women up front is a good move. This is a book about being a woman, written by a women for women. The male reader is not discouraged, however. But it’s like being invited into a cave of bears. I have no hope of saying anything useful about this book to women, so I cannot speak to you here. Blokes should read it. Will they understand women any better at the end? Probably not, but at least now they will understand why they don’t.
This is a Pagan understanding of the Feminine – as female human and as female deity – the Feminine aspect of Nature/Reality. It is personal. It is open and raw. It is deep. It is traumatic, and erotic, and sad, and exultant. It celebrates the feminine aspect of our being as fully as you could imagine. Actually for most, more than you have imagined.
I cannot imagine a masculine equivalent being written. But I am struggling to do so. We males have been so dominant for so long – and yet I suspect nothing we could say about being male, about the masculine aspect of deity/nature/reality would compare favorably here. Do we men have the depth and insight and sensitivity to speak for ourselves as this book does about being woman? We have not had the motive to look that closely, and that’s a pity. The feminist pagan lens is multifocal, and is polished in a history of injustice and repression.
I have been a feminist since the 60s, as a genuine commitment to gender equity and justice. Kissing the Hag left me feeling like a conceited fool who had no real insight into women. I thought I had. I knew I didn’t understand women before I started reading the book, but not as much as became evident.
Now I think I understand what women want. The author’s argument is well put. It isn’t actually a mystery – just not something that’s easy for men to confess they know is real. For me personally it's a hugely confronting proposition. Some smart person is going to observe that if I have been a feminist since the 60s I should have figured this out a long time ago. My lame excuse is that I was a male in the 50s first and that rendered me stupid.
The author is a Pagan and so am I, so we share a lot of notions and assumptions. I am in the odd position of encouraging any woman to read this book, but not all men. The male reader must have a sense of his own uncertainty about the Feminine, and must be at least sympathetic to the Pagan outlook. I think a woman will ‘get’ the theme of the book simply because it will speak to her spirit directly. For a man it's a harder matter. There must be a willingness to go beyond what we are comfortable with.
From my male perspective this book is a masterwork. I feel like a male Alice who fell down a rabbit hole into the dark world of the Feminine – into the labyrinth. I have re-emerged a very different person. I am grateful for the experience.