His sleep, his meat, his drink, is him bereft, / That lean he wax, and dry as is a shaft.

Rejecting the claim that science and technology are inherently masculine or patriarchal, Xenofeminism looks at attempts to repurpose technology to liberate women.

To seek hallows: to visit relics or shrines, in the belief that the saints themselves are present there.

In the novel Naomi stands between two obasans, the one of the title, her great-aunt, the other aunt Emily, her mother’s sister.