About this title: Still, the initial idea of telling my story in this book gave me pause. The hardest thing about writing is telling the truth. Maybe it's the hardest thing about being a woman, too. I think of Nisa, the old African woman who was telling her story...She said, "I will tell my talk...but don't let the people I live with hear what I have to say...I ...
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: HarperSanFrancisco
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780060645892ISBN:006064589X
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: HarperOne
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780060645885ISBN:0060645881
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Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Harper San Francisco, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780061144905ISBN:0061144908
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Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Harperone
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780061144905ISBN:0061144908
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: HarperOne
Date Published: 12/26/2006
ISBN-13:9780061144905ISBN:0061144908
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"If this was helpful to the author, and to others, that's great. I was disappointed in her conclusions -- I arrived at different ones as I went through a similar process. The book was well written, however."
"I read most of this book - maybe 2/3 or 3/4 - but put it down in January, unable to finish (and I follow a naive personal rule of finishing books). It started off great - a woman trying to reconcile feminism with Christianity and her personal experiences. I highlighted a lot of great things in the book to start out, but as the memoir progressed it no longer resonated with me - for lack of a better term, it became too "touchy-feely." I respect this work as a valuable account of her personal experience, but all the symbolism just became too much for me to stomach. I imagine that Kidd and I are somewhat different "types" of feminists. After ranting about it several times, my boyfriend asked why I continued to read it, seeing as I no longer enjoyed it. That's when I stopped."
"Rarely do I not finish a book, but after reading (okay, reading may not be the exact word for what I did - "plowing through" would be more accurate) over three quarters of it, I finally put the book down for good.
I really wanted to add this one to my shelf of feminist essays, memoirs and non-fiction that I love because the subject is important, but this one just didn't speak to me and here is why:
This is Monk Kidd's telling of her feminist spiritual awakening (so far so good) and how she had to reconcile that with the strict and conventional Christian childhood and adult married life she'd been living. Her dad was a minister, as is her husband, and she herself was a Christian writer. This story follows her through the years that she became aware of her feminist self while steeped in the religious culture and tradition she had always lived. Her story is valid and I respect it, I just couldn't relate to her struggles between Christianity and Feminism, which is her main conflict throughout.
In the opening, she says she writes this book in an attempt to help other women on their own journeys. I think it probably is a helpful and interesting story for women from similar backgrounds as Monk Kidd's, so I am not criticizing the book - this is HER unique story. It just didn't speak to me because I don't have those particular issues of religion to resolve as related to feminism ............... I'm proud to say I have my own very different issues altogether :-) (UNrelated to feminism, I might add)......."
"I picked up this book at the advice of a poster to the ex-Christian list to which I belong, and initially found it an exhilarating read. Sue Monk Kidd used to be an inspirational writer who contributed to the sorts of evangelical Christian rags that my mom would keep under the coffee table. But then Kidd underwent a profound transformation into the Sacred Feminine after realizing Christianity's complicity with and even fundamental support for the suppression and degradation of women.
The part of this book that I found most compelling was the beginning when Kidd narrates the specific "epiphanies" she experienced once she began to question the Christian faith. For instance, she remembers the experience of being a girl in church and learning about the patriarchs of the faith were desperate to have sons, about how God put men in charge because Eve was created for man's benefit and she led Adam to commit the first sin and caused them to be cast outside Eden. As Kidd puts it, "The so-called God-ordained image of female as under male, incapable, disobedient, unworthy--all of which added up to inferior--was a devastating notion to me as a girl."
These collective agreements forced upon little girls in the church create a spiritual wound in women, Kidd argues, and only reclaiming the Sacred Feminine can salve it. When Kidd begins making her case for the Sacred Feminine, I found that I couldn't track with her because her writing became both general and abstract in just the same flowery way that Christian religious, touchy-feely magazine writing tends to be. Perhaps I found her reasoning difficult to accept because she still maintains the faith that the universe is serendipitously beneficent, and views her evolution towards the Sacred Feminine as fateful, a fulfilled destiny. Since I don't share her faith that such a benevolent, controlling metaphysical entity--female or otherwise--exists and intervenes in our lives, her argument for the Sacred Feminine failed for me. Or maybe I just didn't understand it properly."
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