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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... feet. It is stated that all bodies have a natural place, the heavy bodies tending toward the earth, the lighter toward the heavens. And what is sublunary is decaying and corruptible. The earth “is so depraved and broken in all kinds of ...
... feet. It is stated that all bodies have a natural place, the heavy bodies tending toward the earth, the lighter toward the heavens. And what is sublunary is decaying and corruptible. The earth “is so depraved and broken in all kinds of ...
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... feet because it makes them better beasts of burden. That teeth were created for chewing, and that women “exist solely for the propagation of the race.” That nature has made it natural for a woman to seek only to be a good wife and ...
... feet because it makes them better beasts of burden. That teeth were created for chewing, and that women “exist solely for the propagation of the race.” That nature has made it natural for a woman to seek only to be a good wife and ...
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... feet,” a woman is said to have said. And both the emancipated woman and the Negro freedman are said to exhibit symptoms of insanity or nervousness. Finally, it is declared that “the generous sentiments of slaveholders.
... feet,” a woman is said to have said. And both the emancipated woman and the Negro freedman are said to exhibit symptoms of insanity or nervousness. Finally, it is declared that “the generous sentiments of slaveholders.
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... feet or visit his tent at night. And when he is thirsty, after a long day's ride over the prairie under the scorching sun, when he finally comes to a pool of water and stops to drink, he will find tadpoles in the bottom of his cup. And ...
... feet or visit his tent at night. And when he is thirsty, after a long day's ride over the prairie under the scorching sun, when he finally comes to a pool of water and stops to drink, he will find tadpoles in the bottom of his cup. And ...
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... feet for every forty acres, he whispers to himself. Centuries of growth. Centuries of rainfall. The very moisture of ... feet a day, three million, six hundred and seventy-three thousand, seven hundred and ninety-seven board feet a year ...
... feet for every forty acres, he whispers to himself. Centuries of growth. Centuries of rainfall. The very moisture of ... feet a day, three million, six hundred and seventy-three thousand, seven hundred and ninety-seven board feet a year ...
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