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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... ears and trees whisper to her. That the dead sing through her mouth and the cries of infants are clear to her. But for him this dialogue is over. He says he is not part of this world, that he was set on this world as a stranger. He sets ...
... ears and trees whisper to her. That the dead sing through her mouth and the cries of infants are clear to her. But for him this dialogue is over. He says he is not part of this world, that he was set on this world as a stranger. He sets ...
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... . It is decided that God is the maker but that he has no hands. It is decided that He created Harmony and Beauty but that He has no ears, no eyes. That He is not corporeal nor is He matter, but He is ultimate reality.
... . It is decided that God is the maker but that he has no hands. It is decided that He created Harmony and Beauty but that He has no ears, no eyes. That He is not corporeal nor is He matter, but He is ultimate reality.
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... ears.) That God knows everything but He does not choose to respond. And it is decided that what makes God divine is his power. That “a God without dominion ... is nothing but Fate and Nature.” That we adore God for his power. And Eve is ...
... ears.) That God knows everything but He does not choose to respond. And it is decided that what makes God divine is his power. That “a God without dominion ... is nothing but Fate and Nature.” That we adore God for his power. And Eve is ...
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... ears heavy with hearing. That she is burned up with creation. That she labors in the desire for death.) And it is stated that woman's nature is more natural than man's, that she is genuine with the “cunning suppleness of a beast of prey ...
... ears heavy with hearing. That she is burned up with creation. That she labors in the desire for death.) And it is stated that woman's nature is more natural than man's, that she is genuine with the “cunning suppleness of a beast of prey ...
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