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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... mouth and the cries of infants are clear to her. But for him this dialogue is over. He says he is not part of this world, that he was set on this world as a stranger. He sets himself apart from woman and nature. And so it is Goldilocks ...
... mouth and the cries of infants are clear to her. But for him this dialogue is over. He says he is not part of this world, that he was set on this world as a stranger. He sets himself apart from woman and nature. And so it is Goldilocks ...
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... mouth.) That God does not respond to our prayers. (He has no ears.) That God knows everything but He does not choose to respond. And it is decided that what makes God divine is his power. That “a God without dominion ... is nothing but ...
... mouth.) That God does not respond to our prayers. (He has no ears.) That God knows everything but He does not choose to respond. And it is decided that what makes God divine is his power. That “a God without dominion ... is nothing but ...
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... mouths suckled at her milkless breast. That she takes pain to sharpen her pleasure. That she stabs, poisons, crushes and corrodes. That nature is weary of life. That her eyes are sick of seeing, her ears heavy with hearing. That she is ...
... mouths suckled at her milkless breast. That she takes pain to sharpen her pleasure. That she stabs, poisons, crushes and corrodes. That nature is weary of life. That her eyes are sick of seeing, her ears heavy with hearing. That she is ...
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... purpose.) And it is decided that woman becomes debased in the eyes of small boys when they see she does not have a penis. We open our mouths. We try to speak. We try to remember. That the clitoris is a prototype for inferiority is held.
... purpose.) And it is decided that woman becomes debased in the eyes of small boys when they see she does not have a penis. We open our mouths. We try to speak. We try to remember. That the clitoris is a prototype for inferiority is held.
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