I consider this book a complete original-I've not read anything like it before or since-and wish that I could go on the road plugging it on talk shows and the like. She interweaves fictionalized historical accounts of women herbalists and witches, organized by region of the world and historical period (including pre-columbian americas and european and african cultures) with botanical descriptions of herbal remedies themselves and interlaces these with fragments of her own memory of trauma. Mestizaje in the Mother-Daughter Autobiography of Rosario Morales and Aurora Levins Morales A/b: Auto/Biography Studies 8 (Fall 1993): 303315. The book is constructed as a spiral fictional meta-narrative, one of the best and tightest examples of systematic writing I've ever read. ISBN 9780599347144 Lopez-Springfield, Consuelo. (in what, I can't remember) who wrote this book as a way of working through two major discoveries she made while in grad school: one, that the history of women as herbal healers, midwives and shamans is an academic gold mine which needs to find a more public voice, and two, she uncovered memories of having been ritually physically abused as a child by a religious group. Aurora Levins-Morales is a Puerto Rican-American writer and Ph.D.
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