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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... land, I found these tendencies appealing. (For a very brief period, I even crocheted several useless items.) And though my choice to write by hand was hardly a conscious gesture of resistance, I was aware that this slower process ...
... land, I found these tendencies appealing. (For a very brief period, I even crocheted several useless items.) And though my choice to write by hand was hardly a conscious gesture of resistance, I was aware that this slower process ...
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... , we are ignoring another land of freedom—liberation from a limiting philosophy, from a habit of self-deception that prevents us from treasuring what we actually possess: life. At the heart of what I discovered as I wrote.
... , we are ignoring another land of freedom—liberation from a limiting philosophy, from a habit of self-deception that prevents us from treasuring what we actually possess: life. At the heart of what I discovered as I wrote.
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... LAND (Her Changing Face) In which he shapes this earth to his use TIMBER (What Was There for Them) In which he makes the trees his own WIND In which he harnesses the elements COWS (The Way We Yield) In which he domesticates the animals ...
... LAND (Her Changing Face) In which he shapes this earth to his use TIMBER (What Was There for Them) In which he makes the trees his own WIND In which he harnesses the elements COWS (The Way We Yield) In which he domesticates the animals ...
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... exist,” the words of a saint read, “as, for instance, this sky and this land, and whatever other bodies I perceive in them. But seven and three are. Sic transit, how quickly pass, gloria mundi, the glories of this world, it is said.
... exist,” the words of a saint read, “as, for instance, this sky and this land, and whatever other bodies I perceive in them. But seven and three are. Sic transit, how quickly pass, gloria mundi, the glories of this world, it is said.
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... land, lakes and rivers, the shapes of rocks, cliffs, all were formed by the deluge, which was God's punishment for sin. “The world is the Devil and the Devil is the world,” it is said. And of the fact that women are the Devil's Gateway ...
... land, lakes and rivers, the shapes of rocks, cliffs, all were formed by the deluge, which was God's punishment for sin. “The world is the Devil and the Devil is the world,” it is said. And of the fact that women are the Devil's Gateway ...
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