I read Catherine Keller’s 1986 book,
From a Broken Web: Separation, Sexism and Self a couple of months back, and it made my heart sing. (A big thank you to
Glenys Livingstone for mentioning it to me, and to
Esmée Streachailt for asking me to write it.) It’s so much what we need right now when there is a reactionary conservative push to reinstate harmful gender roles—as if that’s the cure for all our ills—when what we really should do is keep defying them.
It’s a complex and difficult book, however, so I’ve written a short review which distils the essence of its arguments, and it has just been published on
Medusa Rising, a new radical materialist feminist project. It’s a subscription-only publication (though subscriptions remain free until April), so in time I will share the review here so it can be read freely also.
In the meantime here are some inspiring quotes from the book.
