Medicine Stories: History, Culture and the Politics of Integrity
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| Rating | : | 4.16 (877 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0896085821 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 135 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-08-05 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Drawing vibrant connections between the colonization of whole nations, the health of the mountainsides and the abuse of individual women, children and men, Medicine Stories offers the paradigm of integrity as a political model to people who hunger for a world of justice, health and love.
"Aurora Levins Morales opens our eyes to the risks we need to confront in order to do serious feminist history." -- Cynthia Enloe, author of Bananas, Beaches, and Bases
She holds a doctorate in Women's Studies and History and lectures nationally. . She lives in San Francisco and Minneapolis. Poet, essayist, and historian Aurora Levins Morales was raised a red-diaper baby in the hills of Puerto Rico by her Jewish and Puerto Rican parents. She is the author of Getting Home Alive, a multi-genre work co-written with her mother, Rosario Morales, and Remedios, a prose-poetry retelling of the history of the Atlantic world, through t
Everybody should read this book Medicine stories isn't just for feminists, it is for everybody. It is about telling your story and healing. It is about community sharing and welcoming wholeness, because you deserve to be whole and you deserve to heal.. This is a great read. The essays are very easy to pick This is a great read. The essays are very easy to pick up and read individually or to sit and read a larger section. I read this book mostly out of order, grabbing what caught my attention. This inspired a lot of critical thinking and writing as well as poetry from me.. "the book but overall the book itself was in like new condition" according to Hola. I haven't read the book but overall the book itself was in like new condition. No tears up, no highlights. Just great