Rebecca Bratten Weiss

Mammon’s Ecology

Work, Money & Leadership

“In a time when you might feel trapped between the megalomania of the charlatan who purports to explain everything, and the bubble mentality of the academic who won't step outside disciplinary fences, Goff's work is important. While being directly critical of thinkers who try to come up with simplistic universal explanations or cures, Goff also invites the reader to work out just how interconnected everything is.”

Tough Gynes

Arts & Literature

“Reading this book made me deeply uncomfortable in all the very best ways. From space operas to zombies to westerns, Goff explores the way our popular entertainment—even, and especially, entertainment packaged for women as “empowering”—is subtly driven by a patriarchal narrative. Just as The Beauty Myth made me uncomfortably aware of how much my self-invention was driven by an oppressive mythos marketed to women to limit our freedom as persons, Tough Gynes opened my eyes to the ways entertainment can reinforce patterns of oppression and violence. I've long believed that liberation from patriarchy needs to be a co-ed activity, and the voices of the men who are honestly examining their own complicity (instead of mansplaining) are crucial in the polyphony of redemption. This book gives you access to one of these voices.”