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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When the ideas in this book first began to enter my mind, the atmosphere was
electric with sparks from changes that were happening in every direction. By
contrast to the first decade of the twenty-first century, it was not a technological ...
When the ideas in this book first began to enter my mind, the atmosphere was
electric with sparks from changes that were happening in every direction. By
contrast to the first decade of the twenty-first century, it was not a technological ...
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I hope the reader will enter these spaces as I entered them, moving through
these ways of seeing with passion, and will hear the voices as I hear them,
especially the great chorus of woman and nature, which will swell with time. And I
hope the ...
I hope the reader will enter these spaces as I entered them, moving through
these ways of seeing with passion, and will hear the voices as I hear them,
especially the great chorus of woman and nature, which will swell with time. And I
hope the ...
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We enter a new time (The territory beyond his vigilance) OUR 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 ...
We enter a new time (The territory beyond his vigilance) OUR 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 ...
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User Review - bness2 - LibraryThingI realize this is considered a classic in feminist literature, but it is not anything like what I was expecting and I found Griffin's stream of consciousness style to be very distracting. This is not ... Read full review
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| Title | Woman and Nature: The Roaring Inside Her |
| Author | Susan Griffin |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Catapult, 2016 |
| ISBN | 1619028751, 9781619028753 |
| Length | 300 pages |
| Subjects | › › History / Women Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social Social Science / Women's Studies |
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