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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... moving. In the reigning orthodoxy, one that is still alive and well today, slowness indicated waste, speed was allied with productivity, productivity with progress, progress with a rising standard of living, one that included many ...
... moving. In the reigning orthodoxy, one that is still alive and well today, slowness indicated waste, speed was allied with productivity, productivity with progress, progress with a rising standard of living, one that included many ...
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... moving in the wind, falling in love with this dance that seemed to make sense of everything in the chaotic world of my childhood. In the end, all this has stayed with me, guiding me, becoming me. That is why I dedicated the book to ...
... moving in the wind, falling in love with this dance that seemed to make sense of everything in the chaotic world of my childhood. In the end, all this has stayed with me, guiding me, becoming me. That is why I dedicated the book to ...
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... move underneath the seemingly logical propositions of our culture, not only to discover the machinery of our fear but to find evidence for a wisdom that is at once old and new, forgotten and yet still alive. If the next twenty years are ...
... move underneath the seemingly logical propositions of our culture, not only to discover the machinery of our fear but to find evidence for a wisdom that is at once old and new, forgotten and yet still alive. If the next twenty years are ...
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... moving through these ways of seeing with passion, and will hear the voices as I hear them, especially the great chorus of woman and nature, which will swell with time. And I hope the reader will know, too, though this is just a book and ...
... moving through these ways of seeing with passion, and will hear the voices as I hear them, especially the great chorus of woman and nature, which will swell with time. And I hope the reader will know, too, though this is just a book and ...
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... and this was how man moved through it, remote above the dwindled earth, the concealed human life. Vulnerable life, that could scar. TILLIE OLSEN, Tell Me a Riddle MATTER It is decided that matter is transitory and illusory.
... and this was how man moved through it, remote above the dwindled earth, the concealed human life. Vulnerable life, that could scar. TILLIE OLSEN, Tell Me a Riddle MATTER It is decided that matter is transitory and illusory.
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