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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... existence, my early experiences talking to my dog and knowing she understood me very well, or listening to the music of wind in the trees as if they were divine messages, and an education that taught me that to ascribe intelligence and ...
... existence, my early experiences talking to my dog and knowing she understood me very well, or listening to the music of wind in the trees as if they were divine messages, and an education that taught me that to ascribe intelligence and ...
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... existence because they play traditional domestic roles are not born with this proclivity. They are shaped to it by society. As Simone de Beauvoir wrote in the mid–twentieth century, “A woman is not born she is made.” And the same can be ...
... existence because they play traditional domestic roles are not born with this proclivity. They are shaped to it by society. As Simone de Beauvoir wrote in the mid–twentieth century, “A woman is not born she is made.” And the same can be ...
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... existence, and Probability in which he determines the future, and Gravity in which the laws of the universe determine his fate HIS CATACLYSM (The Universe Shudders) Prophets in which they warn us of the corruption of this earth, and ...
... existence, and Probability in which he determines the future, and Gravity in which the laws of the universe determine his fate HIS CATACLYSM (The Universe Shudders) Prophets in which they warn us of the corruption of this earth, and ...
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... existence of God can be proved by reason and that reason exists to apprehend God and Nature. God is unchangeable, it is said. Logos is a quality of God created in man by God and it is eternal. The soul existed before the body and will ...
... existence of God can be proved by reason and that reason exists to apprehend God and Nature. God is unchangeable, it is said. Logos is a quality of God created in man by God and it is eternal. The soul existed before the body and will ...
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... existence That all the plants of a given country are at war with one another That it is the tendency of all beings to multiply faster than their source of nourishment (Indeed, it is written that the human race tends to outrun ...
... existence That all the plants of a given country are at war with one another That it is the tendency of all beings to multiply faster than their source of nourishment (Indeed, it is written that the human race tends to outrun ...
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