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Summary: The Body Of The Goddess
Review: I am very enthusiastic about The Body Of The Goddess". Ms. Pollack travelled to sites all over the world devoted to the worship of the Great Goddess and all of her many manifestations. This book combines feminist spirituality with feminist politics and feminist archeology and anthropology to show us what the world was like when egalitarian beliefs were dominant. All feminists and people interested in the fate of our planet should read this classic book.
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Summary: The Body Of The Goddess
Review: I am very enthusiastic about The Body Of The Goddess". Ms. Pollack travelled to sites all over the world devoted to the worship of the Great Goddess and all of her many manifestations. This book combines feminist spirituality with feminist politics and feminist archeology and anthropology to show us what the world was like when egalitarian beliefs were dominant. All feminists and people interested in the fate of our planet should read this classic book.
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Summary: Sexism At It's Greatest
Review: Okay I wanted to share my opinion which although biased (I'm a man afterall) has it merrit. First off when I read this book I tried to approach it with an open mind but it that just didn't work out. Her viewpoints that she trys to state as being 'biological fact' are merely reflections of her inner most hatred towards males as a species. The whole thing about the oldest recorded micro orgasisms as being female is totally false, A-Sexual doesn't equal feminine.
Much of her research is extremely flawed and filled with her own perceptions about women being all peaceful blah blah. Most of her fictions are mixed with her facts. Infact I doubt that this author actually has any actual degree in science or biology much less know the basics. Since organisms have gotten more complex they did eventually split off into two distinct genders not, "The XX mutated and their you got males." How insulting can you get and down right ignorance at its very best.
The author got most of her crap from bogus materials such as Scum Manifesto. Which is an interesting ignorant unscientific but trys very hard to make herself appear as intelligent much like this author.
To read about the feminine mysteries I diffently would stay away from this one and go into Freya Aswyns books which who is not actually afraid of saying that women can indeed be just as violent as men. At no point in our history did man or woman for that matter live in total peace, nature is always about conflict and survival of the fittest no matter how you paint it or how you depict it. No matter who ruled man or woman there were wars and their was death and pestilance. Trying to paint one gender as the center of the worlds evils is stupid and trying to put some twist that everyone worshiped a goddess is laughable.
Most pagan tribes hardly think how this fool thinks they 'believed' and indeed many women had a lot to say in making decisions some even had the direct ability to stop blood shed but unlike what these feminists who believe that women are just so peace loving actually were in full support of battle. Why is it that every book I've read on this subject trys to always place the fact that woman came first men are a 'weaker' sex which for such a weaker sex how did they manage to repress them so effectively? Oh yeah because women are supposed to feel deeper, and oppose war.
Get real Rachel and if you hate men so much go live in a hole where you belong.
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Summary: Unique insights on Goddess religion
Review: Rachel Pollack's unique insights are an important addition to the literature on Goddess religion.
She brings alive the visual impact of the body of the Goddess in landscape--including the surroundings of sacred sites in Europe--in a way I've not experienced in other books. She sheds new light on parts of Greek mythology I previously felt were hopelessly fragmented by patriarchy. In particular, her moving discussion of the Persephone myth transforms many of the most disturbing aspects of the patriarchal version of this myth into a metaphor of the continuing power of the Goddess and of women.
Add to this, Pollack's fearless look at sexuality, gender fluidity and gender-changing in ancient Goddess religions and you have a wonder-filled tour de Source.
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Summary: An absolute must-have for any Goddess worhipper
Review: Wow. What a book. It's totally changed my view of human history (and, more to the point, herstory) and brought fresh insights about the Goddess. The dawn of civilization and religion, the matrifocal civilization of Catal Huyuk and Crete, the Gallae, and the Eleusinian Mysteries are all covered, with a spin on such things as landscape, the labrys, and the Venus of Willendorf that I've never seen elsewhere. Oddly enough, she manages to miss the central mystery of the Attis myth -- that He was reborn as a woman -- but all in all, this is an absolute tour de force.
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