Not All Dead White Men by Donna Zuckerberg

(.) Overall, though, the book is an achievement: Zuckerberg’s writing is lucid, and her arguments, which sit at the juncture of classical philology, feminist theory and far-right internet culture, make impressive use of all three bodies of literature (if Red Pill Reddit threads can count as such).

'(D)espite the richness and variety of Zuckerberg’s materials, she often falls just short of contextualizing them within debates that are more longstanding and far-reaching than her analyses suggest.

Readers are continually positioned as part of an enlightened collective whose disdain for the manosphere is assumed.' - Rachel O’Neill, Times Higher Education (.) I often had the impression that Zuckerberg was writing for an audience that already agreed with her. (.) For a non-classicist, one of the most educative aspects of the book is just how deep this well goes, as Zuckerberg faithfully reproduces passages of ancient texts that seem to revel in woman-hating.

'The resulting analysis usefully elucidates the identitarian strains of Red Pill thinking, with Western Classics valued not so much for their content as for the fact that they are Western and classical.Ignoring these people is no longer the answer.' - Natalie Haynes, The Spectator It’s hard to know who else her book is aimed at: by her own admission, she has described only selected lowlights of misogyny in the ancient world, and it reads a great deal like a PhD thesis, filleted of its most academic elements for broader appeal. 'Her goal is to raise the question of whether classicists should be worried about these men and their sudden fondness for Ovid.

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Not All Dead White Men by Donna Zuckerberg