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The Potential of Women, February 2, 1998
By A Customer
This review is from: Wanderground (Paperback)
A co-worker loaned me her copy of Wanderground over a year ago. After reading a chapter or two it was layed aside. Apparently I wasn't ready to read it at that point in my life. Last month I found the book's purple and lavender cover winking at me from a pile of books. This time I was ready. I devored the stories.
I found Wanderground to be a fascinating vision of what women could be. Although there is a great deal of underlying justified anger in many of the stories, the loving environment in which the characters enfold themselves and each other demonstrate the potential for women that our cultural myths deny them.
Sally Gearhart touches not only on what women could be, but predates Danial Quinn's "Ismael" by twenty years in calling attention to western culture's wasteful and destructive use of the earth's resourses.
I found the respect for life, plant and animal, to be very compelling. It is too easy to forget in our pre-packaged shrink-wrapped consumer lives where our food comes from -- that a spirit was deprived of its host so that we may continue to live, for now.
For me, the most moving chapter was the last one, where an elderly woman and her goat prepare to pass on. I found myself in tears at the end of the book.
Thank you Sally, for sharing your vision.
-- Pat Henderson
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This is a book you loan out and never see again., June 14, 1999
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This is a book for all women and all men who are willing to expand their viewpoints of the world around them. These loosely linked stories follow a path towards realization reuniting men and women in one world of understanding. Well written and thought provoking.
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Dealing with Death, April 30, 2008
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A beautiful book in many regards, a portrait of feminist utopia. The Wanderground did for me what many traditional philosophical writings on gender relations couldn't, that is, make real the struggles of women forced to live in a society created forcefully by men.
Having recently experienced an unexpected death, I was put at ease reading the natural outlook Gearhart's characters have towards the passing of life. As a man I can see how some might take offense, and perceive this book to be male-bashing, but this book is a great philosophical work of art, that transcends stereotypical genderization.
Jason M. Tribolini
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