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This was my last book of 2023 and my last book for #booked2022! A rollicking story about the Amazons filled with history (well researched), travel, intrigue and of course, strong, intelligent women! I bought this book years ago because I could not resist a heroine named Diana. A fast paced, fun read. Thanks to the challenge,it is now checked off my #TBR list! #nonpatriarchalsociety #ReadingAfrica2022

#booked2022 is complete! 🎉
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6. #nonpatriarchalsociety
10. #createyourownprompt (about an illness)
17. #newin2022
21. #hopepunk
22. #mythologyretelling #thinkgreek

1600s remote Norway where inhabitants rely on the sea. The men of the village are shipwrecked and the women are left to carry on without husbands, brothers, fathers. They are doing fine until an outsider comes to their shores and begins accusing women of witchcraft. I liked the story but I listened to the audiobook which matched the tone of the book, but a bit flat.
completes my 1st #booked reading challenge! #booked2023 #nonpatriarchalsociety

4.75 ⭐

Not sure if it was me (tired easily atm), or the book but for some parts I kept drifting off. However, I did learn about H D, Jane Harrison & Eileen Power so still a pick.

#2020 #192025 @Librarybelle

Do you think I could use it for #nonpatriarchalsociety #pop22 #booked2022? Some of the women did get married but the emphasis is very much 'A Room of One's Own'. @Cinfhen @squirrelbrain @Kalalalatja @Cortg @Laughterhp @Megabooks @KarenUK

This is an alternate history version of classic westerns. I was drawn to it because I've always been interested in the Old West. The story felt a little uneven and I would have liked a more in-depth portrait of the "Hole-in-the-Wall Gang". I'm using this for #Booked2022 #NonPatriarchalSociety @Cinfhen @4thhouseontheleft @BarbaraTheBibliophage

A soft pick for me. I find it amazing that this book was written over 100 years ago but, while some ideas are revolutionary, other themes are troubling; very much of their time.

I found it a little dry in places and the sudden ending was a let down but I‘m still glad I read it, hence the soft pick.

#pop22
#aboutorsetinanonpatriarchalsociety

This book was published in the 80s, and is clearly dated: 100% focused on heterosexual men and women and Tepper has literally erased other people from her post-apocalyptic world, but when I got past that, I actually loved it.

In a post-nuclear world a few hundred years in the future, some very interesting societal structures have arisen. I can‘t say much without spoiling, but this is a well-written, thought-provoking feminist novel.

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This was wonderful. Learning of the customs from a woman's perspective of a #Nigerian village was very enlightening. Efuru may not have been a queen, but because she was clever and kind, she was respected. She knew how to make money and she cared for everyone in her village. "Let day break." #ecofeminism #nonpatriarchalsociety #Booked2022 @BarbaraJean @4thhouseontheleft @Cinfhen #ReadingAfrica2022 @Librarybelle @BarbaraBB

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Pancake day photo.
Connie is a 37yr old Mexican living in NY, having been in a mental hosp after hitting + then losing her daughter, she attacks her niece's pimp trying to save her,+ends up back in the asylum. We time travel with her to a society in the 22nd century where she discovers abt birth, death, + life in the future. An amazing vision written in 1978.

Raven Grimassi is one of my favorite authors on witchcraft. In this book he writes about the old Italian tradition of Stregheria and about Aradia (considered the Goddess of Witches) who brought witchcraft back to the people in the 14th century.
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