A Feminist Mythology

Hardback

Main Details

Title A Feminist Mythology
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Chiara Bottici
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:216
Dimensions(mm): Height 216,Width 138
Category/GenreSocial and political philosophy
Ancient religions and mythologies
ISBN/Barcode 9781350095960
ClassificationsDewey:201.3082
Audience
Tertiary Education (US: College)

Publishing Details

Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic
Publication Date 21 October 2021
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

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.

Author Biography

Chiara Bottici is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Co-Director of the Gender and Sexualities Studies Institute at The New School in New York, USA.

Reviews

A fascinating investigation of the feminine as myth or mythmaking process. By brilliantly exploring, recombining and embroidering different variants of the "womanhood" mythologem, Chiara Bottici's book succeeds in confronting traditional frames of interpretations in order to provide an "imaginal philosophy" and an "imaginal feminism" constructed as speculative spaces where something new can happen. * Adriana Cavarero, author of "Relating Narratives: Storytelling and Selfhood" *