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10 ratings, 3.80 average rating, 5 reviews
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published
October 31st 1994
by Beacon Press
binding
Paperback, 352 pages
isbn
0807075051
(isbn13: 9780807075050)
description
"Blood, Bread, and Roses" reclaims women's myths and stories, chronicling the ways in which women's actions and the teaching of myth have in...more
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Read in April, 2007
This book changed my entire worldview. Anyone who’s ever felt left out of history class by the prevalence of masculine pronouns has been waiting for Blood, Bread, and Roses. Grahn, celebrated feminist poet and writer, approaches anthropology from humanity’s very inception with the perspective that menstruation was the mother of invention. She argues that menstrual seclusion rituals, widespread among early societies, established human understanding of separation and synchronicity, and that...more
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I read this book back in high school and I remember it as a seminal work in my awakening to the world. I recommend this book to both women and men, as a wonderful tool for understanding history ("her story") and humanity.
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Read in February, 2008
A painfully boring read, punctuated by random intervals where I would snort-laugh with disgust at this compendium of utter heiffer dust. Drivel.
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Read in May, 2008
It's been too long, re-reading this book so much awakened belonging to womanhood.
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