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." |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 46
Page
... mother and my grandmother had been imprisoned by prescribed female roles, I was convinced that times had changed and my life would be different. But, as with many women who formed the second wave of feminism, once I graduated college, I ...
... mother and my grandmother had been imprisoned by prescribed female roles, I was convinced that times had changed and my life would be different. But, as with many women who formed the second wave of feminism, once I graduated college, I ...
Page
... mother. He is the Father. He will not die. And it is said that God is a mathematician. That the human mind understands some propositions in geometry and arithmetic but that in “these the Divine Wisdom knows infinitely more propositions ...
... mother. He is the Father. He will not die. And it is said that God is a mathematician. That the human mind understands some propositions in geometry and arithmetic but that in “these the Divine Wisdom knows infinitely more propositions ...
Page
... mother, and “nature's darling” woman stays at home, it is pointed out. (Yet the woman who neglects her home is unnatural, it is observed, “a monster more horrible than Frankenstein.” That since nature has closed the avenues of ...
... mother, and “nature's darling” woman stays at home, it is pointed out. (Yet the woman who neglects her home is unnatural, it is observed, “a monster more horrible than Frankenstein.” That since nature has closed the avenues of ...
Page
... mother of a great man. 1735, Linnaeus names the plants and animals in Systema Naturae. 1762, Rousseau publishes Contrat Social and Émile. 1792, Mary Wollstonecraft publishes A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. 1798, Victor, the wild ...
... mother of a great man. 1735, Linnaeus names the plants and animals in Systema Naturae. 1762, Rousseau publishes Contrat Social and Émile. 1792, Mary Wollstonecraft publishes A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. 1798, Victor, the wild ...
Page
... mothers.) It is asked if the universe would exist if it were not perceived. It is said that “all the choir of heaven and furniture of earth ... have not any substance without the mind.” Still, prediction is a goal of science, it is said ...
... mothers.) It is asked if the universe would exist if it were not perceived. It is said that “all the choir of heaven and furniture of earth ... have not any substance without the mind.” Still, prediction is a goal of science, it is said ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
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