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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... fear of being raped had shadowed my life, often keeping me indoors at night or fearful inside a house by myself. Using the work of a sociologista who had studied men convicted of rape and my own interviews with victims and police, I ...
... fear of being raped had shadowed my life, often keeping me indoors at night or fearful inside a house by myself. Using the work of a sociologista who had studied men convicted of rape and my own interviews with victims and police, I ...
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... fear, indeed a terror, that serve as the engines for a civilization in retreat from natural processes that must and do include change and loss, vulnerability, the rise and then ebb of powers, mortality. The association between women and ...
... fear, indeed a terror, that serve as the engines for a civilization in retreat from natural processes that must and do include change and loss, vulnerability, the rise and then ebb of powers, mortality. The association between women and ...
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... fear but to find evidence for a wisdom that is at once old and new, forgotten and yet still alive. If the next twenty years are crucial in the history of the planet, so is the future of this wisdom—logical and sensual, realistic and ...
... fear but to find evidence for a wisdom that is at once old and new, forgotten and yet still alive. If the next twenty years are crucial in the history of the planet, so is the future of this wisdom—logical and sensual, realistic and ...
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... Fear in which we remember his fear of the dark, and Speed wherein he speeds past what women and children fear, and Burial wherein he buries himself in her HIS CERTAINTY (How He Rules the Universe) Quantity in which he calculates ...
... Fear in which we remember his fear of the dark, and Speed wherein he speeds past what women and children fear, and Burial wherein he buries himself in her HIS CERTAINTY (How He Rules the Universe) Quantity in which he calculates ...
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... Fears, we are transformed, and Erosion, we transform (What he failed to control) CLARITY Vision to know the being of another, and One from Another (The Knowledge) what passes between us, and Acoustics how we listen for signs (What he ...
... Fears, we are transformed, and Erosion, we transform (What he failed to control) CLARITY Vision to know the being of another, and One from Another (The Knowledge) what passes between us, and Acoustics how we listen for signs (What he ...
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