Why women grow : stories of soil, sisterhood and survival /
by Vincent, Alice.
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BookPublisher: Edinburgh : Canongate, 2023Description: xviii, 286 pages ; 22 cm.ISBN: 9781838855437 (hbk.) :; 1838855432 (hbk.) :.Classification number: 635.082 VINSubject(s): Women gardeners -- History | Gardening | Gardening | Memoirs | Feminism & feminist theory | GardeningSummary: Women have always gardened, but our stories have been buried with our work. Alice Vincent is on a quest to change that. To understand what encourages women to go out, work the soil, plant seeds and nurture them, even when so many other responsibilities sit upon their shoulders. To recover the histories that have been lost among the soil. 'Why Women Grow' is a much-needed exploration of why women turn to the earth, as gardeners, growers and custodians. This book emerged from a deeply rooted desire to share the stories of women who are silenced and overlooked. In doing so, Alice fosters connections with gardeners that unfurl into a tender exploration of women's lives, their gardens and what the ground has offered them, with conversations spanning creation and loss, celebration and grief, power, protest, identity and renaissance.
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| Book - Adult Hardback | Bootle Library | Adult Non-Fiction | 635.082 VIN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Checked out | 21/10/2024 | 003121501X |
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| 635.049 HES The pest & weed expert | 635.0496 AKE 50 ways to outsmart a squirrel and other garden pests : ingenious ways to protect your garden without harming wildlife / | 635.082 HOR Gardening women | 635.082 VIN Why women grow : stories of soil, sisterhood and survival / | 635.092 HAR Skymeadow : notes from an English gardener / | 635.092 LIV Life in the garden / | 635.092 LIV Life in the garden / |
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Women have always gardened, but our stories have been buried with our work. Alice Vincent is on a quest to change that. To understand what encourages women to go out, work the soil, plant seeds and nurture them, even when so many other responsibilities sit upon their shoulders. To recover the histories that have been lost among the soil. 'Why Women Grow' is a much-needed exploration of why women turn to the earth, as gardeners, growers and custodians. This book emerged from a deeply rooted desire to share the stories of women who are silenced and overlooked. In doing so, Alice fosters connections with gardeners that unfurl into a tender exploration of women's lives, their gardens and what the ground has offered them, with conversations spanning creation and loss, celebration and grief, power, protest, identity and renaissance.
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