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A review by marinaxanna
Women Who Run With The Wolves: Contacting the Power of the Wild Woman by Clarissa Pinkola Estés
challenging
reflective
slow-paced
2.0
skipped a few pages because i just couldnt deal with this book anymore. ive been attempting to read this for years (got this 8 years ago) and thought id appreciate it more when id aged a little. well, lesson learned. after psychoanalysis number 737373 of yet another relationship pattern with a male figure i gave up.
this book was definitely written with a “one size fits all” mentality, and that is cishet women who wanna get married and have children. some parts felt TERF-like and patronizing. like as if somehow you are unworthy/unhealthy when you dont fall into this category of the book.
this book was definitely written with a “one size fits all” mentality, and that is cishet women who wanna get married and have children. some parts felt TERF-like and patronizing. like as if somehow you are unworthy/unhealthy when you dont fall into this category of the book.
i was trying really hard to like this book and turn it into something it was not because i love myths and spiritual archetypes. analyzing is great but not when its repetitive and washing down the original meaning of a myth.
i would *not* recommend this book to my fellow NB+queer friends.
and let me also say i feel like its incredibly messed up and disrespectful to repeatedly “use” trauma of deceased women you dont know (janis joplin i.e) to drive home a point.
Moderate: Misogyny