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Title: If It Makes You Feel Good As a Feminist, It Must Be True!
Review: Having consulted this book recently at a library and been stunned by it's scholarly pretense, I thought I would review it here -- only to find that others had already nicely dismantled it. Just one comment for those who wonder if deriding this bit of propoganda makes one a woman-hater, as is implied by its True Believer advocates: has it occurred to them that just because something makes them feel good as feminists, that doesn't make it true or accurate? This book is a historical hatchet job, no more scholarly than the "scholarship" of Communist Party hacks in the late and unlamented Soviet Union, and the idea that people are *afraid* of Walker's book because it's TRUE, and therefore threatening, rather than FALSE, and therefore disturbing, is patently absurd. There's much of interest in the world of myths concerning women. It's just that it all manages to escape this author.
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