María Sánchez is a Spanish writer and field veterinarian and the author of Cuaderno de campo (Field Notebook), Almáciga: Un vivero de palabras de nuestro medio rural (Seedbed), and Tierra de mujeres: Una mirada íntima y familiar al mundo rural (Land of Women), a bestseller in Spain, with translations into French and German. Her poetry and prose have been translated into French, Portuguese, English, and German, and she is a regular contributor to publications on literature, feminism, and rural culture. She lives in Córdoba, Spain.
Table of Contents
Introduction: An Invisible Narrative
*Part One*
A Genealogy of the Field
A Feminism of Sisters and the Land
The Caring Hand
The Emptied Spain
For a Living Rural Community
*Part Two*
Three Women
Great Great Grandmother: Cork Oak
Grandmother: Garden
Mamá - Olive Tree
Vocabulary
A Note about the Cover Photograph
A Note from the Translator
