Intimate Nature: The Bond Between Women and Animals
As any lover of animals will tell you, creatures of the natural world  bring inspiration and spiritual insight to their human admirers. In this  collection of essays, ponderings, poems, and interviews, which includes  contributions from Jane Goodall, Barbara Kingsolver, Ursula Le Guin, and Tess  Gallagher, readers are able to glimpse the personal yet profoundly universal  impact of animals on women's lives.  Even more, they  can  experience the relational and spiritual feminine model for animal study. In  their introduction, editors Linda Hogan, Deena Metzger, and Brenda Peterson explain, "This  strong sense of compassion that many women bring to the study, celebration,  and love of animals has been world changing and visionary. We can now say that  the old guard of detached science is being replaced with the new guardians,  many of them the women in this Book."--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.