Prisms

I am confident that you will not throw my work aside and hastily conclude that I am in the wrong because you did not view the subject in the same light yourself.~Mary Wollstonecraft 1792. Two hundred fifteen years later Jackie De Hon also urges readers to read and study with open minds.Women in patriarchy have to be amazingly strong in order to survive in a culture in which they are denied a living wage a fair share of power and are sorely under-represented in elected and appointed offices and boards. The feminist motto The personal is political; the political is personal reinforces De Hon's theory that cultural politics damage both women and men.Cultural and Domestic Terrorism reign in patriarchy. This book calls attention to both. As in any war zone a lot of living goes on around the edges; thus daily events are also discussed and celebrated. The crux of the book however is a call to action–all people must work together to attain an equitable society! Jackie De Hon is a scrapper–a social optician who will shake an issue like a terrier until we see the rat as clearly as she does. Her collection of poems and essays explores the physical emotional intellectual and spiritual experience of being a woman who sees what is going on and isn't going to take it quietly! From her passionate indictment of unequal jail sentences to the wistful whimsey of No Skinny Bears De Hon will remind you of the battles still to be fought and the dangers of cultural complacency.~Mara Loeb Ph.D. Director of International Student Program and ServicesUniversity of Louisiana at Monroe