Lara Owen

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Lara Owen has written both non-fiction and fiction, and is best known for 'Her Blood Is Gold'. She is currently writing a book on menstruation for Oxford University Press based on her doctoral research. For a longer bio please see https://laraowen.com/about


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Her Blood Is Gold: Celebrat...

4.25 avg rating — 291 ratings — published 1993 — 9 editions
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Growing Your Inner Light: A...

3.90 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2009 — 10 editions
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Honoring Menstruation: A Ti...

4.21 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 1998 — 2 editions
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Seu Sangue é Ouro

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Reorganizing Menstruation: ...

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Pain-Free with Magnet Thera...

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Dreaming of the Nile

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The French Cure

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Sky Mirror: Essays on the A...

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“Reintegrating a truly feminist, woman-honoring perspective on menstruation means turning a whole system of thought upside down. It means saying that a cyclical change in feelings and body sensations is valuable and interesting; it means saying that the emotions women experience premenstrually carry useful information and should be paid attention to; it means acknowledging that a menstruating woman has access to sacred energy, and that if she wishes, she should have space and time to explore this dimension of experience.”
Lara Owen, Her Blood Is Gold: Awakening to the Wisdom of Menstruation

“I began to have a fantasy of living at a time when there was not a thought in the collective that women were in any way lesser than men; a time when the processes of the female body were revered and respected. As I dreamed into this other reality, I realized that my whole body would be affected, and that not a cell in my being would have been formed out of ideas of female inferiority. This was a radical thought. Imagine not having a trace, a smidgen, hiding anywhere in your cells or your thoughts, that would ever imply that there was anything to be ashamed of about being female. That’s what I want, I thought. I want to live like that. I want to really honor and discover the richness of my femininity, and I want to glory in it, revel in it. I want to dance with the mystery of my wondrous alchemical womb.”
Lara Owen, Her Blood Is Gold: Awakening to the Wisdom of Menstruation

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