5/15/2023 0 Comments Diamant the red tent![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The Red Tent was a bestseller, embraced by book clubs and women’s groups for its message of women’s empowerment. In the novel, Diamant describes a new moon ritual centered on a celebration of women’s menstruation and the power of women’s bodies. Linking life cycles and menstrual cycles with calendrical and lunar cycles, Diamant finds beauty and power in parts of the biological experience of womanhood that have long been considered shameful or ugly. Diamant recasts the female characters, historically depicted as passive and victimized, as active agents who are capable of directing and transforming their own lives. ![]() 1951) is a journalist, novelist, and Jewish ritual innovator. Her first novel, The Red Tent, reimagines the narratives of matriarchs in the Bible, told from women’s perspectives that are marginalized in the Biblical text. ![]()
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