Woman and Nature: The Roaring Inside HerIn this famously provocative cornerstone of feminist literature, Susan Griffin explores the identification of women with the earth—both as sustenance for humanity and as victim of male rage. Starting from Plato's fateful division of the world into spirit and matter, her analysis of how patriarchal Western philosophy and religion have used language and science to bolster their power over both women and nature is brilliant and persuasive, coming alive in poetic prose. Griffin draws on an astonishing range of sources—from timbering manuals to medical texts to Scripture and classical literature—in showing how destructive has been the impulse to disembody the human soul, and how the long separated might once more be rejoined. Poet Adrienne Rich calls Woman and Nature "perhaps the most extraordinary nonfiction work to have merged from the matrix of contemporary female consciousness—a fusion of patriarchal science, ecology, female history and feminism, written by a poet who has created a new form for her vision. ...The book has the impact of a great film or a fresco; yet it is intimately personal, touching to the quick of woman's experience." |
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... imagined divinity as male and that in this way justified the abuse and oppression of women. When I was asked to deliver a lecture on women and ecology to a class at the University of California, I compared the theological assertion.
... imagined divinity as male and that in this way justified the abuse and oppression of women. When I was asked to deliver a lecture on women and ecology to a class at the University of California, I compared the theological assertion.
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... asking probing and insightful questions about race and sexuality, about violence and power, and in the process scrutinized the culture we had inherited for clues to how we might see differently and thus change. In the mid-seventies ...
... asking probing and insightful questions about race and sexuality, about violence and power, and in the process scrutinized the culture we had inherited for clues to how we might see differently and thus change. In the mid-seventies ...
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... asked to deliver a lecture on women and ecology. I was concerned that the ecological movement had often placed the burden for solving its problems, those that this civilization has with nature, on women. I said in that lecture that ...
... asked to deliver a lecture on women and ecology. I was concerned that the ecological movement had often placed the burden for solving its problems, those that this civilization has with nature, on women. I said in that lecture that ...
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... asking me, almost four years ago, to deliver a lecture on women and ecology, thus beginning my thinking in this direction. And I thank the National Endowment for the Arts for a grant which allowed me the time and space to do much of ...
... asking me, almost four years ago, to deliver a lecture on women and ecology, thus beginning my thinking in this direction. And I thank the National Endowment for the Arts for a grant which allowed me the time and space to do much of ...
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... asked. And it is seen that the senses are deceptive. And the ancient texts reveal that of understanding there are two Kinds: one authentic and the other bastard, and sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch are all bastard understandings ...
... asked. And it is seen that the senses are deceptive. And the ancient texts reveal that of understanding there are two Kinds: one authentic and the other bastard, and sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch are all bastard understandings ...
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