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Title: The Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Great Goddess
Author: "Starhawk"
ISBN: 0062516329
EAN: 9780062516329
Special 20th Anniversary Ed. Edition
336 Pages
Publisher: HarperSanFrancisco
Binding: Paperback
Publication date: 1999-11-15

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2003-05-22 Too much Feminism not enough Paganism

Spiral dance is without doubt an influencial book towards Paganism and Feminine spirituality, however I found that the feminine aspects were far too heavy and took the attention away from the Pagan topics that were suposed to be covered in this book.
The book covers feminine spirituality and feminine aspects of modern Paganism and Goddess worship, thats not to say that it isn't one for the men here too, there is a lot of positive female takes on Paganism in this book that are benificial to both sexes/genders.
Basic aspects of Goddess worship are covered, it is clean cut and Starhawk has a wonderful way of writting, this book although does not cover the specifics of the faith and practice so much, it does however give a wonderful example of life inside the Pagan and Goddess worshipping communities.

The problem is that Starhawk puts too much of herself into this book, or more specificaly too much of her causes, eco work and feminism, both good causes to go after but I didn't feel that they needed to be included in this book quite as much as they were.
If you are not a fan of feminism which follows ideas such as 'Pornography degrades women' then you are really not going to aprove of a lot of the events she talks about in this book. At one point she goes on to talk about male/female polarity, saying that she doesn't agree in diferentiating so much between 'Male' / 'Female' yet in a lot of her activities within feminism she does just that.

This is a good book and it will benifit a lot of people, giving a bit more of an insight on the more feminine aspects of paganism and how feminism influenced this particular form of Paganism. It is an influencial book, but you really have to be awear of Starhawks point of view before jumping into this book or else you will be in for a hell of a dive into outdated feminism.