Denise's review
The Dance of the Dissident Daughter
by Sue Monk Kidd
Denise's review
The Dance of the Dissident Daughter by Sue Monk Kidd
Denise's review
I refuse to rate this one. It would be like rating one of you. Not doing it. Everyone will experience this a little differently, just as everyone experiences each of you a little differently.
This is the story of Monk-Kidd's personal struggle with her Christianity. I'd say it was a feminist critique of Christianity, but "feminist" is too culturally loaded, and "critique" sounds so academic as to be deadly. She looks at mythology -- and I include Christianity in this genre here -- from all over the world and all across time to see how and why women and goddesses have been systematically pushed to the fringes of religion and given secondary roles, even in their spiritual lives.
The tune will be familiar, even if the lyrics are not. Still, I had a lot of epiphanies.
This is the story of Monk-Kidd's personal struggle with her Christianity. I'd say it was a feminist critique of Christianity, but "feminist" is too culturally loaded, and "critique" sounds so academic as to be deadly. She looks at mythology -- and I include Christianity in this genre here -- from all over the world and all across time to see how and why women and goddesses have been systematically pushed to the fringes of religion and given secondary roles, even in their spiritual lives.
The tune will be familiar, even if the lyrics are not. Still, I had a lot of epiphanies.
