A Humming Under My Feet (1985)

Second-Hand

Excellent condition

FIRST EDITION

'It's risky to step from one's own country into another. One sets down one's feet. They move no longer to familiar music, stepping to a tune that's not even heard...'

Barbara is travelling and writing in Europe in the early 1950s. On the way she makes discoveries about herself and her women friends, all struggling to attain selfhood and independence in a man's world. And she relates these discoveries to her experiences of the matriarchal sites of Greece, where she` feels the force of women's history as a literal humming under her feet.

Barbara Deming was America's foremost writer on women and peace, feminism and non-violence. She started to write this book when she was a young woman but completed it only thirty years later, shortly before she died in 1984.

It is a compelling story about self-discovery and love between women. Barbara Deming writes with a poet's eye for landscape, colour and texture, as well as with an immense honesty and passion uniquely her own.