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Title: Women Studies Student's Hopes are Dashed!
Review: I remember happily embracing this weighty tome in highschool, thinking that the secrets of the universe had finally been revealed to me. I was so excited at what seemed to be such an in-depth recovery of women's 'herstory' at last revealed! What a let down to find later on such eminent feminist (& Pagan) scholars as Margot Adler (Drawing Down the Moon) deriding Walker's sources and her interpretations of said sources.It would be marvelous if B. Walker honestly re-edited & re-released WEMS with more stringent scholarly research, even if the resulting book is just half its original size. This would restore much credibility to her work and be worth the effort. For myself, I'd be happy if such an encyclopedia was only a quarter of it's original size as long as it was ACCURATE.
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