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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... body, sensations, feelings, emotions, and “subjective” experience—and its failure to examine critically the theories and social practices producing this metaphysics or epistemology—that directs the arrogant relation to 'others' visible ...
... body, sensations, feelings, emotions, and “subjective” experience—and its failure to examine critically the theories and social practices producing this metaphysics or epistemology—that directs the arrogant relation to 'others' visible ...
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... body to the body politic. The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin stretched the mind in one direction while Love's Body by Norman O. Brown or The Politics of Experience by R. D. Laing in another. The mix of ideas and action was potent. As ...
... body to the body politic. The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin stretched the mind in one direction while Love's Body by Norman O. Brown or The Politics of Experience by R. D. Laing in another. The mix of ideas and action was potent. As ...
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... bodies. I was not alone in challenging this alienation. Naturalists from Thoreau to Aldo Leopold had done this far ... body, and summoning a potential for healing. As I wrote I began to reclaim a part of myself I had renounced earlier ...
... bodies. I was not alone in challenging this alienation. Naturalists from Thoreau to Aldo Leopold had done this far ... body, and summoning a potential for healing. As I wrote I began to reclaim a part of myself I had renounced earlier ...
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... body to its declarations were ridiculous (unfounded, hysterical, biased). You will recognize that voice from its use of such phrases as “it is decided” or “the discovery was made.” Much research went into the reconstruction of this ...
... body to its declarations were ridiculous (unfounded, hysterical, biased). You will recognize that voice from its use of such phrases as “it is decided” or “the discovery was made.” Much research went into the reconstruction of this ...
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... bodies as we all exist in patriarchy. The second book is entitled “Separation,” and beginning with the separation of a ... body from soul—and reveals that separation which patriarchy requires us to make from ourselves. The third book ...
... bodies as we all exist in patriarchy. The second book is entitled “Separation,” and beginning with the separation of a ... body from soul—and reveals that separation which patriarchy requires us to make from ourselves. The third book ...
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