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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... blood upon her ass. That the devil copulates with all the women in this orgy, in this ritual. That these women are witches. That “Lucifer before his Fall, as an archangel, was a clear body, composed of the purest and brightest air, but ...
... blood upon her ass. That the devil copulates with all the women in this orgy, in this ritual. That these women are witches. That “Lucifer before his Fall, as an archangel, was a clear body, composed of the purest and brightest air, but ...
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... blood,” and of women's mind it is said that it “shifts oft like the inconstant wind,” and it is said that “all witchcraft comes from carnal lust which is in women insatiable.”) And it is said that all sin originated in the flesh of the ...
... blood,” and of women's mind it is said that it “shifts oft like the inconstant wind,” and it is said that “all witchcraft comes from carnal lust which is in women insatiable.”) And it is said that all sin originated in the flesh of the ...
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... blood to the brain is weakened. All abstract knowledge, all knowledge which is dry, it is cautioned, must be abandoned to the laborious and solid mind of man. “For this reason,” it is further reasoned, “women will never learn geometry ...
... blood to the brain is weakened. All abstract knowledge, all knowledge which is dry, it is cautioned, must be abandoned to the laborious and solid mind of man. “For this reason,” it is further reasoned, “women will never learn geometry ...
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... blood at the Royal College of Physicians. Kepler publishes his third law, De Harmonice Mundi. The first black slaves are introduced in America. 1619 1619 (She is asked if she signed the devil's book. She is asked if the devil had a body ...
... blood at the Royal College of Physicians. Kepler publishes his third law, De Harmonice Mundi. The first black slaves are introduced in America. 1619 1619 (She is asked if she signed the devil's book. She is asked if the devil had a body ...
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... blood through the body like a hydraulic pump. And it is said that just as a king is the foundation of a kingdom, so the “heart of animals is the foundation of their life, the sovereign of everything within them, the sun of their ...
... blood through the body like a hydraulic pump. And it is said that just as a king is the foundation of a kingdom, so the “heart of animals is the foundation of their life, the sovereign of everything within them, the sun of their ...
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