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An excellent precursor to “A Room of One’s Own”, Warner criticizes compulsory heterosexuality prior to Adrienne Rich and draws beautiful parallels between pagan relationships with land and Judeo-Christian social constructs and living in urban spaces. Warner attributes the sensibility often characterized as part of being a women with the need to live freely, pick mushrooms, and fall in love with a cat. Under patriarch