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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... hear there is a substance and it is called Plutonium.” I recall very clearly one night when I woke in a cold sweat, worried that I had created an unsolvable problem for myself by writing in two voices, until, after falling asleep and ...
... hear there is a substance and it is called Plutonium.” I recall very clearly one night when I woke in a cold sweat, worried that I had created an unsolvable problem for myself by writing in two voices, until, after falling asleep and ...
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... hear the voices as I hear them, especially the great chorus of woman and nature, which will swell with time. And I hope the reader will know, too, though this is just a book and thus just a fiction, that the feelings which enter these ...
... hear the voices as I hear them, especially the great chorus of woman and nature, which will swell with time. And I hope the reader will know, too, though this is just a book and thus just a fiction, that the feelings which enter these ...
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... hear in the Navaho chant of the mountain that a grown man sits and smokes with bears and follows directions given to ... hear us speak. But we hear. BOOK ONE MATTER How Man Regards and Makes Use of. Preface to the Third Edition Preface to ...
... hear in the Navaho chant of the mountain that a grown man sits and smokes with bears and follows directions given to ... hear us speak. But we hear. BOOK ONE MATTER How Man Regards and Makes Use of. Preface to the Third Edition Preface to ...
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... hear or see woman, whose face is a burning wind, whose voice is a hissing serpent. It is decided that in birth the female provides the matter (the menstruum, the yolk) and that the male provides the form which is immaterial, and that ...
... hear or see woman, whose face is a burning wind, whose voice is a hissing serpent. It is decided that in birth the female provides the matter (the menstruum, the yolk) and that the male provides the form which is immaterial, and that ...
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... hears stories of women mating with monkeys or bears and bearing progeny.) Slavery is said to be a condition of every higher civilization. A woman should be an enthusiastic slave to the man to whom she has given her heart, it is declared ...
... hears stories of women mating with monkeys or bears and bearing progeny.) Slavery is said to be a condition of every higher civilization. A woman should be an enthusiastic slave to the man to whom she has given her heart, it is declared ...
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Adrienne Rich ALOIS PODHAJSKY animals asked atom beauty become bird blood body breast breath called child clitoris count D. H. LAWRENCE darkness daughter death decided discovered dream ears earth energy existence eyes face fear feel feet female flesh forest girls grow hair hands head hear Hexenhaus horse human imagine inside John James Audubon knew labor land learned light light-years lives man’s Marie Curie matter milk mind mother motion mouth move movement never night ourselves ovum pain particles plankton plutonium Press rape remember rider Robin Morgan secret separate shape Sigmund Freud SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR skin sleep soil space speak species speed story SUSAN GRIFFIN tambourine tell things thought told trees turn universe uterus violin vision voice vulva wave wild wind witches woman and nature WOMAN WOMAN WOMAN womb women words written York