Inlay with Nacre: The Names of Forgotten Women

Poet-dramatist Cindy Williams Gutiérrez explores the global oppression of women--and testifies to their resilience--in over 20 countries around the world. Based on real-life incidents ranging from Brazilian honor killings and Indian sati to Irelands Magdalene Laundries and Mississippi appendectomies to rape as a weapon during the Rwandan genocide this poetry collection bears witness to the sociocultural forces that have waged war on womens bodies freedom and humanity. Now in the #MeToo era these poems both underscore and expand the conversation on the diminishment of women reverberating across all continents and through 43 centuries. Inlay with Nacre is herstory--the plight of Woman as bride wife mother and daughter--and a call to action to restore the Feminine in the world.