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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... motion originates from outside matter. That the soul is the cause of all movement in matter and that the soul was created by God: that all other movement proceeds from violent contact with other moving matter, which was first moved by ...
... motion originates from outside matter. That the soul is the cause of all movement in matter and that the soul was created by God: that all other movement proceeds from violent contact with other moving matter, which was first moved by ...
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... the immensity of God. That the earth is a central sphere surrounded by concentric zones, perfect circles of air, ether and fire, containing the stars, the sun and the planets, all kept in motion by the winds of heaven. That heaven is.
... the immensity of God. That the earth is a central sphere surrounded by concentric zones, perfect circles of air, ether and fire, containing the stars, the sun and the planets, all kept in motion by the winds of heaven. That heaven is.
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The Roaring Inside Her Susan Griffin. in motion by the winds of heaven. That heaven is beyond the zone of fire and that Hell is within the sphere of the earth. That Hell is beneath our feet. It is stated that all bodies have a natural ...
The Roaring Inside Her Susan Griffin. in motion by the winds of heaven. That heaven is beyond the zone of fire and that Hell is within the sphere of the earth. That Hell is beneath our feet. It is stated that all bodies have a natural ...
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... motion is real. It is discovered that motion can be measured by measuring the space through which movement moves and the time in which the moving takes place. It is decided that motion is real. (But it is said again that all motion came ...
... motion is real. It is discovered that motion can be measured by measuring the space through which movement moves and the time in which the moving takes place. It is decided that motion is real. (But it is said again that all motion came ...
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... motion.” That matter has no intellect and no perception. And it is stated that nature should be approached only through reason. 1382 Thomas Brawardine in Treatise on the Proportions of Velocities in Moving Bodies proposes a mathematical ...
... motion.” That matter has no intellect and no perception. And it is stated that nature should be approached only through reason. 1382 Thomas Brawardine in Treatise on the Proportions of Velocities in Moving Bodies proposes a mathematical ...
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