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But I loved it. It has changed me and I trust myself more after reading it. I have already planned to reread it next year (as I did this year with all about love with bell hooks). I believe WWRWW will continue to change me for many years to come.
So to anyone with a scientific, skeptical mind like mine: please give it a try :)
The format worked for me as a poem in the vain of Coleridge Rime of the ancient mariner or Homers Iliad. Not sure the author would approve but it worked for me.
I did not find the mix of art and science a problem as such but did have some knowledge of the disciplines before hand. So enough of style now to content.
I like the fact the loss of the wild woman was given full weight but that there was no indictment of any particular element as to why this oppression occurred to women over time. Not that I entirely agree with that assertion.
The use of folktales, the phycology and sociology of there day to explain shift in group coconsciousness that resulted in the gender imbalance was Inspired. And the use of collective thought an entirety acceptable conceit in a Jungian.
Over all I morn the loss of the wild woman even as a construct to show how the feminine power of humanity has been so under valued to the determent of the whole human race.