Intimate Nature The Bond Between Women and Animals

by Hogan, Linda; Metzger, Deena; Peterson, Brenda

• ISBN13: 9780449003008
• ISBN10: 0449003000
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-04-20
• Publisher: Ballantine Books

Summary

Though women have long felt kinship with animals, in the past, they seldom participated in the study of them. Now, as more women make animals the subject of their investigations, significant new ideas are emerging--based on the premise that animals are honored co-sharers of the earth. This unprecedented anthology features original stories, essays, meditations, and poems by a vast array of women nature writers and field scientists, including: DIANE ACKERMAN - VIRGINIA COYLE - GRETEL EHRLICH - DIAN FOSSEY - TESS GALLAGHER - JANE GOODALL - TEMPLE GRANDIN - SUSAN GRIFFIN - JOY HARJO - BARBARA KINGSOLVER - URSULA LE GUIN - DENISE LEVERTOV - LINDA McCARRISTON - SUSAN CHERNAK McELROY - RIGOBERTA MENCHU - CYNTHIA MOSS - KATHERINE PAYNE - MARGE PIERCY - PATTIANN ROGERS - LINDA TELLINGTON-JONES - HAUNANI-KAY TRASK - GILLIAN VAN HOUTEN - TERRY TEMPEST WILLIAMS

Author Biography

Linda Hogan, a Chicksaw poet, essayist, and novelist, worked as a volunteer in wildlife and raptor rehabilitation. In 1995 she organized a conference for tribal elders on endangered species and was part of a working group for Native input into the reauthorization of the Endangered Species Act. Her lifelong area of interest has been the traditional relationship between indigenous peoples and animals. Her books include Dwellings: A Spiritual History of the Living World, Book of Medicines, and Solar Storms.
 
Deena Metzger has lived with wolves for twenty years, writing about them from her home in the Santa Monica mountains. As a poet, writer, and lay analyst, she has devoted her writing and working life to ecological and environmental concerns. Her books include Tree, What Dinah Thought, The Woman Who Slept with Men to Take the War Out of Them, and Writing for Your Life.
 
Brenda Peterson is author if Nature and Other Mothers, Living by Water, and Sister Stories, as well as three novels. She is also an environmental writer and journalist. For the past twelve years she has been studying and encountering dolphins and other whales in the wild. Since 1993 she has covered the wild wolf—from its slaughter in Alaska to its reintroduction in Yellowstone and Olympic National Park. She has written, with Linda Hogan, a series of articles against proposed whaling in the Northwest for The Seattle Times.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Animals and People: "The Human Heart in Conflict with Itself"
First People	p. 1
Story from Bear Country	p. 3
First People	p. 6
Who Speaks for Wolf	p. 20
The Nahual	p. 27
Why I Love with Admiration Every Salmon I See	p. 29
Prayer	p. 34
The Dog That Runs in the Rough Seas	p. 37
Caribou	p. 46
Clan Eyes	p. 49
The Last Wolf	p. 51
She Had Some Horses	p. 53
Deep Science: Living in the Field	p. 55
Akmad	p. 57
Bonobo Society: Amicable, Amorous and Run by Women	p. 68
Underwater Overtures	p. 71
Beyond Species	p. 78
Looking After God's Birds	p. 85
Living with Wolves	p. 90
Gorillas in the Mist	p. 97
The Burden of the Beach	p. 104
Elephant Memories	p. 115
Elephant Talk	p. 126
The Case for the Personhood of Gorillas	p. 132
Life Among the Whales	p. 142
Listening to the Sea Breathing: An Interview with Helena Symonds	p. 152
I Acknowledge Mine	p. 159
Borderlines: The Domesticated Wild	p. 167
How I Tithe	p. 169
Thinking Like Animals	p. 176
Beyond Predator and Prey	p. 180
Justice in Venice Beach	p. 187
Goat's Milk	p. 189
Calving Heifers in a March Blizzard	p. 200
An Interview with Linda Tellington-Jones	p. 203
His Power: He Tames What Is Wild	p. 209
Petra	p. 213
Friends, Foes, and Working Animals	p. 223
Partnering Pegasus	p. 229
Relationships: Learning from Animals	p. 243
Left Sink	p. 245
Making Peace	p. 250
Elegy for Diamond	p. 258
Fear in the Shape of a Fish	p. 266
Moonfire	p. 280
Sweet Hope Waiting	p. 285
Hand-raising a Rhino in the Wild	p. 291
Ursa Minor	p. 295
The Moon by Whale Light	p. 304
Mazes	p. 309
Come into Animal Presence: Testimonies	p. 313
Come into Animal Presence	p. 315
Le Coursier de Jeanne D'Arc	p. 316
Healing the Mare	p. 319
Tippet	p. 321
The Universe Responds: Or, How I Learned We Can Have Peace on Earth	p. 323
Dance of the Deer	p. 328
Winter Poem/The Snowy Owl	p. 330
Destroying the Cormorant Eggs	p. 333
The Hummingbird	p. 334
Wild Mothers	p. 336
Change of Life	p. 337
Great White Heron	p. 338
Crows	p. 342
The Chimpanzee at Stanford	p. 344
The Bear Story	p. 345
The Bear	p. 347
The Darkness Is Light Enough: Field Journal of a Night Naturalist	p. 348
An Interview with Keiko's Trainers	p. 349
Mind in the Waters	p. 357
Restoration: Bringing Back the Animals	p. 359
Coming Home	p. 361
Shades of Gray	p. 375
Shingalana: The Lioness of Londolozi	p. 379
Dance with a Giraffe	p. 393
To Be Taken	p. 397
Sitting in Council with All Creatures: A Conversation with Virginia Coyle	p. 405
Venison Pie	p. 414
Coyote	p. 420
Apprenticeship to Animal Play	p. 428
Epilogue: Digging Up the Roots	p. 438
About the Contributors	p. 443
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