"Blood, Bread, and Roses" reclaims women's myths and stories, chronicling the ways in which women's actions and the teaching of myth have interacted over the millenia. Grahn argues that culture has been a weaving between the genders, a sharing of wisdom derived from menstruation. Her rich interpretations of ancient menstrual rites give us a new and hopeful story of culture's beginnings based on the integration of body, mind, and spirit found in women's traditions. "Blood, Bread, and Roses" offers all of us a way back to understanding the true meaning of women's menstraul power. Foreword by Charlene Spretnak "[Grahn's] intriguing excursion through folklore, myth, religion, anthropology and history bespeaks a feminist conviction that male origin stories must be balanced by a recognition of women's central role in shaping civilization." -Publishers Weekly

Blood, Bread, and Roses: How Menstruation Created the World

Judy Grahn

Religion & Spirituality

Beacon Pr

Examines the life styles of gay men and women and discusses the role of gay culture in mainstream society

Another Mother Tongue: Gay Words, Gay Worlds

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

The work of a common woman: The collected poetry of Judy Grahn, 1964-1977 ; with an introduction by Adrienne Rich

Diana Press

The queen of wands: Poetry (The Crossing Press feminist series)

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Crossing Press,U.S.

Book by Grahn, Judy; Rich, Adrienne (introduction)

Work of a Common Woman: The Collected Poetry of Judy Grahn 1964-1977

The Crossing Press

The Work of a Common Woman: Collected Poetry (1964-1977) (Crossing Press Feminist Series)

Crossing Press

Mundane's World

Mythology & Folk Tales

Selected poems by a feminist author reexamine love, death, power, lesbianism, and the role of women in society

Work of a Common Woman

Onlywomen Press Ltd

TRIANGLE CLASSICS, ILLUMINATING THE GAY AND LESBIAN EXPERIENCE. Winner of the 1985 Gay Book Award of the American Library Association, Judy Grahn's "Another Mother Tongue: Gay Words, Gay Worlds" is a wondrous interweaving of lesbian and gay cultural history, autobiography, mythology, etymology, spirituality, and ritual. Hailed when it was published as "groundbreaking... funny, intelligent, and proud" (San Francisco Chronicle) and "personally rewarding, richly entertaining, definately revolutionary and treasurable landmark" (Bay Area Reporter), the book continues to inspire seekers, readers, and writers. Spanning centuries and across cultures, Grahn tours lesbian and gay life on a self-described "shashay down the lavender trail". She covers a remarkable range -from Amazon queens to Celtic fairies; from tribal-king sacrifices of Europe and Asia to contemporary violence against gay men; from the significance of the color purple and rainbows to the origins of "butch" and "femme". Aleong the way, Grahn draws from her own life and sets herself in the larger context of people and events in the modern gay and lesbian movement. Throughout, she addresses the memory of her " dear first lover" Von (Yvonne Mary Robinson) with great emotional impact. Powerful also, in Grahn's exactingly detailed insistence of the everpresence of an ancient and contionous gay culture, "Another Mother Tongue" is more than gay history, more than autobiography... It is a book of discovery and celebration, of pain and courage, of humor and love" says SOYOURNER. And, as CHRISTOPHER STREET has noted, "[Judy Grahn's] reminisces touch moments in all our lives".

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