A Feminist Mythology

A Feminist Mythologytakes us on a poetic journey through the canonical myths of femininity, testing them from the point of view of our modern condition. A myth is not an object, but rather a process, one that Chiara Bottici practises by exploring different variants of the myth of "womanhood" through first- and third-person prose and poetry. We follow a series of myths that morph into each other, disclosing ways of being woman that question inherited patriarchal orders. In this metamorphic world, story-telling is not just a mix of narrative, philosophical dialogues and metaphysical theorizing: it is a current that traverses all of them by overflowing the boundaries it encounters. In doing so,A Feminist Mythologyproposes an alternative writing style that recovers ancient philosophical and literary traditions from the pre-Socratic philosophers and Ovid'sMetamorphosesto the philosophical novellas and feminist experimental writings of the last century.