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Lilies of the Hearth: The Historical Relationship Between Women and Plants
Harrowsmith gardening editor Jennifer Bennett travels "the sweetly scented, dangerous, romantic path women share with plants" and discovers a world rich in myth, magic, scientific curiosity and entrepreneurial spirit.
192 pages, Paperback
First published June 1, 1991
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July 12, 2021
My review may be bias but although this book was informative, I also felt it was very sad and repetitive. I found myself at one point groaning and thinking, “We get it. Men really hated women.” This book seems more about how men have demonized women in the past for their relationships with plants and how the role of the housewife supported use of herbs than woman’s actual, personal relationship with plants.
Still, it remains one of my favourite books because it is the only book I have come across that has collected stories that can represent the evolution of how afab (assigned female at birth) people and plants were monitored and torn away from each other.
Still, it remains one of my favourite books because it is the only book I have come across that has collected stories that can represent the evolution of how afab (assigned female at birth) people and plants were monitored and torn away from each other.
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