| Foreword by Charlene Spretnak Preface: All Blood Is Menstrual Blood Acknowledgments |
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| One | BLOOD.. . Wilderness Metaform 1 How Menstruation Created the World 2 Light Moved on the Water 3 Crossing the Great Abyss 4 Wilderness Metaform |
3 24 43 51 |
| Two | BREAD. . . Cosmetikos Metaform 5 How Menstruation Fashioned the Human Body 6 Cosmetikos and Women's Paraphernalia 7 Ceremony: Let's Cook! 8 Parallel Menstruations 9 Sex, Matrimony, and Trickster Wolf |
71 84 101 123 138 |
| Three | AND. . . Narrative Metaform 10 Number, Orientation, and the Shapes of Light 11 The Making of the Goddess 12 Menstrual Logic in the Visible World 13 Narratives: Descent Myths and the Great Flood |
153 172 192 209 |
| Four | ROSES. . . Material Metaform 14 Crafting the Earth's Menstruation: Materialism 15 Crossing the Abyss to Male Blood Power 16 The Way and the Way Back |
229 248 272 |
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