Feminist Mythology

A Feminist Mythology takes 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 Mythology proposes an alternative writing style that recovers ancient philosophical and literary traditions from the pre-Socratic philosophers and Ovid's Metamorphoses to the philosophical novellas and feminist experimental writings of the last century.