Research Catalog

Title

Sacred cycles : the spiral of women's well-being / by Sara Wickham.

Author

Wickham, Sara.

Publication

[London] : Free Association Books, 2004.

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Details

Description

vi, 186 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

Have you ever thought about how you would like to be born, wondered why tampon adverts always use blue liquid or dreamed of living in a society with Government-funded luxury hotels for women who needed space? Have you ever wondered why so many women living in the West still believe their bodies are inferior to men's and that others.

Subject

• Women
• Cycles
• Women > Health and hygiene
• Women and spiritualism
• Feminism
• Women
• Women's Health
• Feminism
• feminism
• women (female humans)
• Cycles
• Women and spiritualism
• Women > Health and hygiene

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 174-178) and indexes.

Contents

1. Women, spirals and patchwork quilts -- 2. Ancient herstory -- wondering how it was -- 3. Modern herstory and its impact on women -- 4. Twenty-first century girl -- 5. Being born a woman -- 6. Spiralling into womanhood -- 7. Nature, the moon and women's knowledge -- 8. The power of rhythm and seclusion -- 9. A time to dance -- 10. A sourcebook of menstrual choices -- 11. The journey of pregnancy -- 12. Childbirth choices -- 13. The sensations of labour and birth -- 14. A labour of love -- 15. A sourcebook of pregnancy and birth choices -- 16. The mother-baby spiral -- 17. Mothers and mothering -- 18. Sacred milk -- 19. Cycling on -- 20. Celebrating the matriarch -- 21. Towards the menopause.

ISBN

• 1853437344
• 9781853437342

LCCN

2005363287

OCLC

• ocm56910553
• 56910553
• SCSB-14654803

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library