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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... humanity and victim of male ravage. The book is cultural anthropology, visionary prediction, literary indictment and ... human body, sensations, feelings, emotions, and “subjective” experience—and its failure to examine critically the ...
... humanity and victim of male ravage. The book is cultural anthropology, visionary prediction, literary indictment and ... human body, sensations, feelings, emotions, and “subjective” experience—and its failure to examine critically the ...
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... human body, and summoning a potential for healing. As I wrote I began to reclaim a part of myself I had renounced earlier as irrational, the sense of direct communion with everything on earth that I had retained only in my poetry. The ...
... human body, and summoning a potential for healing. As I wrote I began to reclaim a part of myself I had renounced earlier as irrational, the sense of direct communion with everything on earth that I had retained only in my poetry. The ...
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... human beings, but came rather from some unassailable authority, above earthly error or prejudice. But before I chose this voice I had already written other entries in a very different voice, employing the embodied first person plural ...
... human beings, but came rather from some unassailable authority, above earthly error or prejudice. But before I chose this voice I had already written other entries in a very different voice, employing the embodied first person plural ...
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... human beings, twenty years seems like a very short period of time. Yet the book was written in the midst of a crisis that has deepened in the intervening years. When life as we know it hangs in the balance, even the smallest moments in ...
... human beings, twenty years seems like a very short period of time. Yet the book was written in the midst of a crisis that has deepened in the intervening years. When life as we know it hangs in the balance, even the smallest moments in ...
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... human nature, we are now perilously close to making the earth after a philosophy that not only limits but even erases nature. As logical as the arguments for controlling women and nature appear to be, they veil a profound illogic, a ...
... human nature, we are now perilously close to making the earth after a philosophy that not only limits but even erases nature. As logical as the arguments for controlling women and nature appear to be, they veil a profound illogic, a ...
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