The Red Tent by Anita Diamant

Even though Dinah lived her life several thousand years ago in a culture far removed from almost all of the women who is going to read this book, her story is as interesting and fresh as any book written in these years. Diamant, through her knowledge of this thoughtful side of ancient traditions, left a vision of what was birth and midwife like at those times, what has been lost now, and also what was the importance of ancient values. In an age where family traditions are becoming more and more forgotten. But astonishingly, Dinah's mothers were also all sisters.

"My mother and my mother- aunties told me endless stories. No matter what their hands were doing -- holding babies, cooking, spinning, and weaving -- they filled my ears.

"Women want daughters to keep their memories alive.

Works Cited:

Diamant, Anita. " (Anita Diamant) In this story the never-ending combinations of mother-daughter is shown: sisters, friends, mother-in law and daughter-in-law, aunt and niece, cousins, teacher and student. father, and all the men they found sleeping in the city that night.

The tent where the women retired each month to pass their menstruation, and the descriptions of their time spent celebrating this important rite for becoming a woman, and other daily customs, make this an original and inspiring story.

Then they carried Dinah back to Jacob's tents. Dinah shows a cynical nature, and it can be concluded that these women (midwife) are more complicated than most men at that time. Their stories were like offerings of hope and strength poured out before the Queen of Heaven, only these gifts were not for any god or goddess -- but for me.