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Title: The Woman's Dictionary of Symbols and Sacred Objects by Barbara G. Walker ISBN: 0-06-250923-3 Publisher: Harper SanFrancisco Pub. Date: 02 November, 1988 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.21 (14 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: The woman's encyclopedia of myths and secrets
Comment: Barbare G. Walker has done a great job with wonderful attention to detail. This book is good for the novice or more advanced people interested in Feminie/spiritual studies. Granted the information contained is contrary to what I had been brought up with my whole life, I find the information revealing and mentally inspiring. I am no historian, nor bible thumper.. I have read some of the other reviews her book has generated. That is what prompted me to write this review. I had to speak out on the books behalf. The material in her book is going to be controversial. History has long been censored and rewritten by the winners. You know, the people who only want you to know 'so much'. Show me an author who does not write with a point of view and I'll show you a phone book. So in order to wake from ignorance one must educate themselves. This book can have a nice part in that.
Rating: 5
Summary: Symbolisims
Comment: I like the book because it had wonderful symbols. They were very decreptive about them, including the flowers, trees, and animas.
Rating: 1
Summary: So Much Wishful Thinking, and Half-Baked Scholarship
Comment: I cannot recommend this book to anyone. From my perspective, it is an example of the kind of wishful thinking that passed for scholarly writing on feminist spirituality in the 1980s.
The book does not seem adequately sourced, and some of the alleged connections Walker writes about seem conjured up out of whole cloth. Her bibliography is unimpressive, too.
This is the kind of writing that gives women's spirituality a bad name. And what distresses me the most is that Walker's material is picked up and regurgitated over and over again in so many subsequent books in this subject area. Too many naive readers take everything in this book as gospel truth, simply because Walker has said it is so. And they are using this as a primary source!
At core, this book is embarrassing to me. I do hope some 3rd-wave feminist with scholarly credentials and training comes along to write a badly-needed better version.
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Title: The Woman's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets by Barbara G. Walker ISBN: 006250925X Publisher: Harper SanFrancisco Pub. Date: 30 November, 1983 List Price(USD): $34.00 |
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Title: When God Was a Woman (Harvest/Hbj Book) by Merlin Stone ISBN: 015696158X Publisher: Harcourt Pub. Date: May, 1978 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: An Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Traditional Symbols by J. C. Cooper ISBN: 0500271259 Publisher: Thames & Hudson Pub. Date: April, 1987 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: The Crone : Woman of Age, Wisdom, and Power by Barbara G. Walker ISBN: 0062509349 Publisher: Harper SanFrancisco Pub. Date: 24 February, 1988 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: The Essential Handbook of Women's Spirituality by Barbara G. Walker ISBN: 1931412642 Publisher: Fair Winds Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 2001 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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