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Title: Wing to Wing, Oar to Oar: Readings on Courting and Marrying by Amy A. Kass, Leon R. Kass, Leon Kass ISBN: 0-268-01960-6 Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press Pub. Date: 01 February, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.25 (8 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Propaganda?
Comment: Natasha pretends to be a stone-hard woman who stands at the crossroads of social change while wondering in aristocratic fashion why so many stand in the way of Herstory; in reality she is an emotionally constipated wallflower and contents herself with feeling superior to those less insecure than herself. "Joe Mama" is a pseudo-intellectual poseur who wants us to wink at his sarcastic, bohemian persona while being silently impressed with his knowing sophistication, which he thinks is demonstrated by some obscure allusion to the writings of "evolutionary psychology" he is too stupid even to be able to parrot.
Ad Hominem attacks are as easy as they are irrelevant, aren't they?
I must have missed class the day they taught us that not only marriage but politeness as well had been dispensed with by the enlightened perspectives of "evolutionary psychology" and "modern sociological studies". Apparently Joe and Natasha were present however, which is why they can advise the rest of us that "Amy and Leon" have "done it again" in promoting "absurd moral values" and thereby "making [Joe] puke" and Natasha "Mmmmmmm" in smug disapproval. Nevertheless I doubt that 630 pages worth of commentary from Darwin (apparently he was not "evolutionary" enough for Joe), Plato (who recommended full equality for women in his "Republic"), Jane Austen (single, female, educated, independently wealthy, and famous--a real doormat, wouldn't you say), and other such fossils can be summed up by the assertion that "women should remain demure, submissive, and concern themselves above all with finding and keeping an attractive husband". Needless to say, such simplistic indoctrination, as opposed to reasoned argument, is far from Leon and Amy Kass as editors and contributors to this volume. For those who want to understand marriage as something more than a futile gesture or the vestigial opiate of slant-browed society, this is your book. To those for whom marriage is not a problematic issue, either through happy circumstance or simple indifference, good luck with being clueless.
Rating: 5
Summary: The wisdom of the ages...or throwbacks to an earlier time?
Comment: Some reviewers seem insistent that Amy and Leon Kass are stuck in a cultural and intellectual backwater, still insisting on ideas and values that are badly out of date.
Others say that Leon and Amy Kass have written the best answer to modern misunderstandings and mistakes concerning marriage and sexual relationships.
They are accused of trying to force their narrow, archaic views of the sexual nature of humanity.
They are also accused of depending strangely on ancient writings that have little 'scientific' value.
Leon and Amy Kass admit themselves that most of the writings they draw from are old--but the value of such writings is in finding what the people who wrote them have in common with modern times.
Basic facts of life--like the connection between sexuality and reproduction, the connection between monagomy and stable societies, and the connection between morality and healthy relationships--are the themes that hold this book together.
The book tends to question many modern assumptions--not for the purpose of turning back the clock, but for the purpose of finding a way to improve the future prospects in relationships, marriages, and society in general.
At no point do the editors preach to the reader. Instead, they encourage the reader to think--and to feel--and to explore the meaning of being a human being.
This book is written for college-level reading, although an intelligent high school student (one who has been trained to think for himself) can readily understand it.
Rating: 1
Summary: antiquated gender roles and pseudo-science
Comment: Amy and Leon have done it again! (made me puke) I would suggest that before you pick up this tome you read up on the field of evolutionary psychology. It's not an accident that the Kasses use a field regarded as highly as astrology to justify their radically conservative agenda. Comically evoking Genesis for anthropological support and assigning rigid gender roles, this handbook for a conservative's pro-marriage crusade is excruciatingly difficult to take seriously. The Kass' moral agenda is painfully clear from the beginning, relegating the book to the realm of right-wing propaganda.
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Title: The Book of Marriage: The Wisest Answers to the Toughest Questions by Dana Mack, David Blankenhorn, Carrie Meback Mack ISBN: 0802838960 Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company Pub. Date: 01 March, 2001 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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Title: The Hungry Soul: Eating and the Perfecting of Our Nature by Leon Kass ISBN: 0226425681 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 1999 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: The Beginning of Wisdom: Reading Genesis by Leon Kass, Leon R. Kass ISBN: 0743242998 Publisher: Free Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: Cultivating Heart and Character: Educating for Life's Most Essential Goals by Tony Devine, Joon Ho Seuk, Andrew Wilson ISBN: 1892056151 Publisher: Character Development Group Pub. Date: 31 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: Separate Flights by Andre Dubus ISBN: 0879231238 Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher Pub. Date: 01 September, 1984 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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