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This anthology brings together voices of more than forty writers celebrating female embodiment while exploring deeper issues of misogyny, violence and sexism in gender identity politics today, demonstrating the intentional silencing and erasure of living female realities.
These perspectives come at a time when gender politics and profits from an emerging medical tran ...more
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Paperback, 624 pages
Published
November 1st 2016
by Tidal Time Publishing
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Fair disclosure I am part of this project. I participated in the technical aspect of production and not with the content. (I do have a quote used that I had posted on Facebook.) I did also read most references listed in the footnotes. I learned a lot. It was not a fun project. It was quite depressing and emotionally challenging as I woke up to the depth and breadth of this topic. I understand if some are reticent to read it because it's difficult to look patriarchy in the eye. This book does tha
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There are definitely some important topics in this book. Did I feel like some of it was angry TERF propoganda? Yeah. Did I develop a new understanding of TERFs? I did. The dialogue behind the anger is legit and this book helps articulate the voices of those who are shut down because they're shunned as transphobic. It also surfaces medical concerns that, in my experience, does not get enough dialogue regarding medically altering one's body.
Wonderful anthology on the war against women and against radical feminism Must-read for every woman who challenges the patriarchy.
If you are a woman read this.
Gripping stuff. Enlightening about a wide variety of cultural scenes in our societies. Gives a - deep enough in the detail - and wide historical overview, and insight into what is happening right now in our world to women and girls.
The anthology style works very well with chapters of different lengths, styles (academic, personal narrative, poetry, blogs, spirituality). Hearing these women's voices in their myriad richness and diversity has been a tonic for the s ...more
Gripping stuff. Enlightening about a wide variety of cultural scenes in our societies. Gives a - deep enough in the detail - and wide historical overview, and insight into what is happening right now in our world to women and girls.
The anthology style works very well with chapters of different lengths, styles (academic, personal narrative, poetry, blogs, spirituality). Hearing these women's voices in their myriad richness and diversity has been a tonic for the s ...more
THANK YOU. A much needed book at a time when women's voices are being silenced. I appreciated the engaging mix of science, research, politics, personal experiences, history, spirituality, etc - the issues were covered in depth from every direction. My deep intuitive unease about the loss of 'woman' has been validated. The book is a bit US centric, but this shit is rapidly spreading worldwide. I now feel educated and prepared to fight it from my own corner of the world (Australia).
An insightful collection which provides compelling arguments to combat the insanity of transgenderism, especially among children. The ire of these female authors is understandable given the removal of safe spaces for women and children alike. It was a little like listening in on an uncensored conversation among women who are being told they should be seen but not heard. The simple fact that no one can actually experience a sex change is irrefutable, and gender nonconformity does not provide a ca
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Excellent survey of radical feminist thinking on the subject of sex and gender. It was extremely eye-opening. I was a bit dismayed at the "woo" that permeated parts of the book, but I appreciated the range of voices included.
I learned a lot about witchcraft, chi, "bodyknowing", tantric energies, "Mysteries", magic spells, pagan rituals, "embodying higher frequencies", and other stuff that isn't real unfortunately. I wish there wasn't so much of that in the book.
Lots of new material, and very well substantiated. A must-read
I really tried, I really hoped that the book would have thoughtful dialogue on very complex topics. And I have to admit I haven't read the majority of this book, I really tried but everything I've read in this book, which was by the editor, just showed that wasn't the goal here. Every argument is distorted, generalized, cherry-picked.
Yes, there are problems in the ways we as a society and as individuals, whether trans or cis, approach the topic, but this book is not about that. This book is about telling a n ...more
Yes, there are problems in the ways we as a society and as individuals, whether trans or cis, approach the topic, but this book is not about that. This book is about telling a n ...more
Jun 04, 2018
Trejon Dunkley
marked it as not-interested
Didn’t realize this was a terf guidebook. No thank you.
I read this very slowly because I wanted to sit with each essay to process it. And I'm still processing this. 4 stars because this gave me a lot to think over, but the amount of woo is too high for me, personally. It was a struggle to make it through some of the LONG essays on paganism, goddesses, spells, etc. The anthology is well-organized and I can't tell you how refreshing it is to read an anthology about feminism that doesn't bring in some random dudes to give their opinions on how women sh
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This book will receive a place of honor on my shelf. This book is the most important one of the age, especially as time passes and the war on women and girls progresses ever further. A framework of almost fifty different voices coming together to deliver an accurate, compassionate analysis of the women hating religion known as 'transgender' ideology, which has medicalized itself to escape criticism and frames anyone (all of whom are women) who question it as heretical witches who should be liter
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For those who are already familiar with the basics of radical feminism and criticisms of the gender identity movement, this anthology will mostly serve as a refresher from an ideological standpoint. Rachel Ivey’s chapter, in fact, is adapted from a video that was formative to my own introduction to the field a few years ago. I did enjoy several of the essays for the unique perspectives and deeper insight into particular issues they offered, especially Chapter 11, and the essays from Kathy Crocco
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Jul 30, 2018
Monica
marked it as to-read
I feel funny about even putting this book on my "to read" list, because I don't necessarily want to promote it. I'm definitely not a fan of Cathy Brennan or Lierre Keith, for instance. However, I've seen Luisah Teish criticized as a "TERF," or "trans-exclusionary radical feminist," and I'm wondering what she's had to say that she's been labeled as such. A quick google search led me to the fact that she contributed to this book. I do find it odd that there's an essay from Monica Sjoo in here, giv
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This is an important anthology.
Many of the essays are really wonderful. Most are good. A few I didn’t enjoy, like the American College of Pediatricians attempting to pathologise homosexuality (don’t get the impression that this is a homophobic book: as far as I know, the editor and the majority of the contributors are lesbians, and the homophobia of genderism is one of the key themes). Another essay didn’t make the distinction between patriarchal folk etymologies and real etymology (like femini ...more
Many of the essays are really wonderful. Most are good. A few I didn’t enjoy, like the American College of Pediatricians attempting to pathologise homosexuality (don’t get the impression that this is a homophobic book: as far as I know, the editor and the majority of the contributors are lesbians, and the homophobia of genderism is one of the key themes). Another essay didn’t make the distinction between patriarchal folk etymologies and real etymology (like femini ...more
At almost fifty chapters the book is a mixed bag - some are good (I liked the personal stories section and some of the sisterhood articles in particular), most are okay, some are terrible. But such is the joy of anthologies I guess... My main gripes were that for me personally many of the essays just didn't add anything new that I hadn't already read before elsewhere + there were one too many opinion pieces about USA-specific politics (which I don't care about), too much woo for my taste and not
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“Divide and conquer is best accomplished through silencing, through calling into question those who speak out. There is so much of this attached to the trans movement. Even just wondering about a profound concept such as transgender is labeled “transphobic”. What I think has happened is that people are now phobic about their own gut responses to life. We are being systematically separated from our own intuition. This is fatal for a civilization, I think. Not that our intuition always tells the truth with a capital T, but it is a critical piece of who we are. Without it, we remain profoundly directionless, and more susceptible to coercion of all types. What”
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