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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... , worried that I had created an unsolvable problem for myself by writing in two voices, until, after falling asleep and waking again, I realized that the conflict between these two perspectives would give the book a dramatic narrative.
... , worried that I had created an unsolvable problem for myself by writing in two voices, until, after falling asleep and waking again, I realized that the conflict between these two perspectives would give the book a dramatic narrative.
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... falling in love with this dance that seemed to make sense of everything in the chaotic world of my childhood. In the end, all this has stayed with me, guiding me, becoming me. That is why I dedicated the book to creatures whom Descartes ...
... falling in love with this dance that seemed to make sense of everything in the chaotic world of my childhood. In the end, all this has stayed with me, guiding me, becoming me. That is why I dedicated the book to creatures whom Descartes ...
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... Fall. That before the Fall there was immortal bliss on earth, but that after the Fall “all things decay in time and to their end do draw.” That the face of the earth is a record of man's sin. That the height of mountains, the depth of ...
... Fall. That before the Fall there was immortal bliss on earth, but that after the Fall “all things decay in time and to their end do draw.” That the face of the earth is a record of man's sin. That the height of mountains, the depth of ...
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... Fall, as an archangel, was a clear body, composed of the purest and brightest air, but that after his Fall he was veiled with a grosser substance and took a new form of dark and thick air.” That “Virgin's urine is quite unclouded ...
... Fall, as an archangel, was a clear body, composed of the purest and brightest air, but that after his Fall he was veiled with a grosser substance and took a new form of dark and thick air.” That “Virgin's urine is quite unclouded ...
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... falling reach the ground simultaneously. That God is skilled in gravity. And the parabola is discovered as a result of continuous horizontal movement and inexorable gravity. And the ellipse is discovered to be the path of the planets ...
... falling reach the ground simultaneously. That God is skilled in gravity. And the parabola is discovered as a result of continuous horizontal movement and inexorable gravity. And the ellipse is discovered to be the path of the planets ...
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