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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... Dream of a Common Language, Poems 1974-1977, by Adrienne Rich, with the permission of W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. Copyright © 1978 by W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. Lines from “On a Night of the Full Moon” reprinted from Coal, by Audre ...
... Dream of a Common Language, Poems 1974-1977, by Adrienne Rich, with the permission of W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. Copyright © 1978 by W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. Lines from “On a Night of the Full Moon” reprinted from Coal, by Audre ...
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... dreams of a more simple life lived on the land, I found these tendencies appealing. (For a very brief period, I even crocheted several useless items.) And though my choice to write by hand was hardly a conscious gesture of resistance, I ...
... dreams of a more simple life lived on the land, I found these tendencies appealing. (For a very brief period, I even crocheted several useless items.) And though my choice to write by hand was hardly a conscious gesture of resistance, I ...
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... and Pollution wherein he poisons the world HIS SECRETS (What Is Sleeping Within) Dream Life where his right hand and his left hand never meet, and Nightmares where we glimpse another future TERROR In which he warns her with his vision of.
... and Pollution wherein he poisons the world HIS SECRETS (What Is Sleeping Within) Dream Life where his right hand and his left hand never meet, and Nightmares where we glimpse another future TERROR In which he warns her with his vision of.
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... DREAMS (What Lies Under Our Stillness) Our Flying, our Deviling, our Dancing, our Animals Familiar (What was kept secret from him) OUR ANCIENT RAGES We allow Turbulence and Cataclysm cannot be denied, and we say there are always ...
... DREAMS (What Lies Under Our Stillness) Our Flying, our Deviling, our Dancing, our Animals Familiar (What was kept secret from him) OUR ANCIENT RAGES We allow Turbulence and Cataclysm cannot be denied, and we say there are always ...
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... Dreams not real. Pleasure and pain not real. Nor nightmares. Nor chamber music. And of the difference of women from men it is said that women are more sensual than they. It is said that women exist for pleasure. “How fair and pleasant ...
... Dreams not real. Pleasure and pain not real. Nor nightmares. Nor chamber music. And of the difference of women from men it is said that women are more sensual than they. It is said that women exist for pleasure. “How fair and pleasant ...
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