![]() In her concise, intellectually and emotionally engaging Women and Other Monsters: Building a New Mythology, Jess Zimmerman reaffirms the strategy of reclamation with all the wit and intersectionality that befit the twenty-first century. Combined with efforts at re-purposing such slurs as “bitch” and “slut” to transform them from hurtful utterances to statements of pride, these processes of claiming something back or reasserting a right have been crucial to resisting and even poking fun at the dominant patriarchal culture for half a century. That decade saw the dawn of scholarship seeking to pry open the vise-grip of masculinist history-all too often presented with biases both deliberate and unconscious that rendered it hisstory-to reveal the herstory hidden therein. ![]() Reclamation has been a vital feminist tool since the 1970s. ![]() Women and Other Monsters: Building a New Mythology By Jess Zimmerman ![]()
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