Women Who Run With The Wolves: Contacting the Power of the Wild Woman by Clarissa Pinkola EstésMy rating: 2 of 5 stars
Hooter: Identifying themes of women empowerment through folklores
While the concept of breaking the man created concept of woman and leveraging the definition of a wild woman because wild is untethered to any constructs - man made or otherwise is a fresh perspective along with the examples from folklore and native tales from across the world to drive her point across, the writing style does get very tedious and it was a struggle for me to trod through the book. The concepts of believing in yourself, not doubting your gut instinct. Also whilst you'd hope for deep dive into those tales, the focus is on the author's psychological analysis that would give Freud some competition and makes for heavy reading.
Bluebeard was an interesting story along with the Little match girl that stood out along with the conclusions drawn. I'd read the book for the folklore and if they had edited out all the psychoanalysis bits.
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