A Feminist Mythology
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A Feminist Mythology

  1. 216 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

A Feminist Mythology

About this book

A Feminist Mythology takes us on a poetic journey through the canonical myths of femininity, testing them from the point of view of our modern condition. A myth is not an object, but rather a process, one that Chiara Bottici practises by exploring different variants of the myth of "womanhood" through first- and third-person prose and poetry. We follow a series of myths that morph into each other, disclosing ways of being woman that question inherited patriarchal orders. In this metamorphic world, story-telling is not just a mix of narrative, philosophical dialogues and metaphysical theorizing: it is a current that traverses all of them by overflowing the boundaries it encounters. In doing so, A Feminist Mythology proposes an alternative writing style that recovers ancient philosophical and literary traditions from the pre-Socratic philosophers and Ovid's Metamorphoses to the philosophical novellas and feminist experimental writings of the last century.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-Title Page
  3. Dedication
  4. Series
  5. Title Page
  6. Contents
  7. Preface: a myth and a half
  8. Introduction: a book of books
  9. PART ONE Two myths and a half
  10. First myth: Sherazade and her phantom
  11. Second myth: the dress of Ariadne
  12. Third myth: Europa recovered
  13. Epilogue
  14. Intermission
  15. PART TWO The city of women
  16. Epilogue
  17. Intermission
  18. PART THREE Bestiarium
  19. Prologue
  20. Epilogue
  21. Intermission
  22. PART FOUR Herbarium
  23. Prologue
  24. Grand finale
  25. Copyright