Going Out of Our Minds: The Metaphysics of Liberation

by Sonia Johnson

Book Overview

Women's Studies, Politics, Spirituality This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0895942402
• Release Date: January 1987
• Publisher: Crossing Pr
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.8" x 5.5"

Customer Reviews

We Need To Go Out of our Minds

I purchased this book used, and have only just gotten to reading it, and find it mind-blowing. My wife is particularly enthralled with it as it revitalizes her feminist backbone, something that needs to be done around the country during Bush jr's reign. This book is giving her ideas of possibility in reclaiming humanity, with beginning where it all starts: with women taking the reins and making this world right. We are all one; we need to accept each other and stop the violence against women worldwide. We must end war and violence in general in order to attain peace. Sonia is radical in that she recognizes the failures of patriarchy and speaks truth to power. Her thinking is sublime. Wholly recommend this book to awaken the giant that is Woman.

A primer for younger feminists

Sonia Johnson has written several books, but this is my favorite. She seems incredibly naive, especially in the beginning of her story, and a lot of the things she says, younger feminists will probably yawn and say, "Yeah? No kidding!". But Sonia has a passion for what she believes that really makes me want to re-investigate my own beliefs and feelings. She is definitely not the same person now that she was when she wrote "Going Out of Our Minds!" The last I heard about her, she was living in New Mexico, with some very unusual philosophies that included 1 - Sex is patriarchal, hierarchical, and harmful, even between women, 2 - She "divorced" her children when they turned 18, and believes that humans should be like other animals and not have anything to do with their young once they can care for themselves, 3 - She has nothing whatsoever to do with men.I love to read the way her mind works, but all of her new philosophies - I can't go there... She is definitely an intriguing, fascinating woman, and it would do all women good to read her books. Even if you can't go "all the way" with her. Anyone heard anything from Sonia lately? Has she dropped off the face of the earth?