Benefits of audiobook: cannot throw the book across the room.
Drawbacks of audiobook: the narrator has never actually seen Moana, and doesn’t pronounce the names correctly.
I was intrigued by the title of this book and expected it to say something new to help me understand the draw of feminism that I feel in contrast to many traditional Catholics. But the book largely comes across as an arsenal for conservative thinkers to use against “demonic” feminists. There’s a point towards the end where she is explaining the birth of the 60’s era feminist movement and, while admitting that women were unhappy, suggests that they should have become more conservative rather than fighting for a voice.
Acceptable behavior for women is childbearing and spiritual motherhood. There is NO allowance for womens’ vocations outside of the home (despite the author being female and having a prolific writing career). Mentioned as a throwaway are the gains of modern culture such as a woman’s right to free herself from domestic abuse. But apparently, by being feminists women (not “true women”, btw) are causing unrest in the souls of their husbands so maybe it’s all our fault anyway. The advice of this book is to stop seeking satisfaction from anything outside Jesus, Mary, husband and children and I’m the sucker for thinking a Catholic book about feminism would say anything besides.