She feels like a version of myself simply born in a different time and place, but with the same motivations to tell stories that affect great change on a personal and societal level that I possess in my current form. Honestly, I think men would benefit from reading it as well at this point, but as I am only able to write from my own experience, I can only speak to the ways that it moved me as a woman.īlackie is a storyteller focused on mythology and psychology, as she continually reminds us throughout her written work. Sharon Blackie, the amazing author that she is, has detailed what I believe to be one of the most essential books for all women to read in their lifetimes. I’ve searched and searched for things that would bring me answers as to why things suddenly came to a crashing halt in my world and nothing has left me satisfied. As I’ve said before – I’m not quite sure exactly how or why it happened to me and not other people in my life, but little by little it did. I’ve felt powerless and afraid of the world and all it’s experiences for a while, years if I’m being honest. If you read any other posts on this blog, you know I’ve been going through a more spiritually focused journey for a while now and really struggling with a fair majority of things in my life.

McMahon (Portland State University) discuss the persisting intersections of prejudice and dehumanization.I have close to no idea how I will ever be able to encompass this book in a measly review on my blog, but I am going to attempt it nonetheless.įor me, this book was everything I was searching for in a book during the time of my life when I found it. Kimberly Barsamian Kahn (Portland State University), Phillip Atiba Goff (University of California) and Jean M. Townsend (University of Nottingham) investigates the simianization of the Japanese and Steve Garner (Open University) examines the simianization of the Irish. Stefanie Affeldt (Leuphana Universität Lüneburg) looks at ›King Kong‹ as an aggressive story of sexist and racist counter-emancipation. Silvia Sebastiani (Centre des recherches historiques – EHESS) explores the drawing of boundaries between apes and men during the Enlightenment. David Livingstone Smith and Ioana Panaitiu (University of New England) consider the foundation of dehumanization. Hund (Universität Hamburg) traces the conjunctions of sexist, racist and classist discriminations in the history of simianization. Mills (Northwestern University) determines the place of simianization within racism. The papers discuss the varying dimensions of simianization in the context of sexist and racist discrimination. As the contributions to this volume of the Racism Analysis Yearbook show, its expiration date has not yet passed. In the course of a flood of ascriptions and assumptions, the ape stereotype evolved into a persistent marker of otherness.

If women rose rooted by sharon blackie