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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... laws of the universe determine his fate HIS CATACLYSM (The Universe Shudders) Prophets in which they warn us of the corruption of this earth, and Plutonium in which we accept their judgment, and Pollution wherein he poisons the world ...
... laws of the universe determine his fate HIS CATACLYSM (The Universe Shudders) Prophets in which they warn us of the corruption of this earth, and Plutonium in which we accept their judgment, and Pollution wherein he poisons the world ...
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... laws govern all mutability, and that the invariability of God's will can be deduced from the perfection of His laws which rule the natural world. It is posited that the spaces between the planetary orbits each correspond to Euclid's ...
... laws govern all mutability, and that the invariability of God's will can be deduced from the perfection of His laws which rule the natural world. It is posited that the spaces between the planetary orbits each correspond to Euclid's ...
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... a mathematical law of dynamics universally valid for all changes in velocity. Joan of Arc, aged 22, “placed high on the fire so the flames would reach her slowly,” dies. 1431 (She is asked why she wears male costume.) 1468 The.
... a mathematical law of dynamics universally valid for all changes in velocity. Joan of Arc, aged 22, “placed high on the fire so the flames would reach her slowly,” dies. 1431 (She is asked why she wears male costume.) 1468 The.
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... law, De Harmonice Mundi. The first black slaves are introduced in America. 1619 1619 (She is asked if she signed the devil's book. She is asked if the devil had a body. She is asked whom she chose to be an incubus.) 1622 Francis Bacon ...
... law, De Harmonice Mundi. The first black slaves are introduced in America. 1619 1619 (She is asked if she signed the devil's book. She is asked if the devil had a body. She is asked whom she chose to be an incubus.) 1622 Francis Bacon ...
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... Law at Rostock demands that witches be extirpated by fire and sword. Witch trial at Lyon, five sentenced to death. Sister Maria Renata executed and burned. Anna Maria Schnagel executed for ... laws. That the secret of the universe may be.
... Law at Rostock demands that witches be extirpated by fire and sword. Witch trial at Lyon, five sentenced to death. Sister Maria Renata executed and burned. Anna Maria Schnagel executed for ... laws. That the secret of the universe may be.
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