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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rational thought, is part of nature. Thus, that one element would be closer to
nature than another seems implausible to me. What does, however, seem very
possible to me is that one gender may be more aware of being part of nature than
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rational thought, is part of nature. Thus, that one element would be closer to
nature than another seems implausible to me. What does, however, seem very
possible to me is that one gender may be more aware of being part of nature than
...
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civilization. The other voice in the book began as my voice but was quickly joined
by the voices of other women, and voices from nature, with which I felt more and
more strongly identified, particularly as I read the opinions of men about us.
civilization. The other voice in the book began as my voice but was quickly joined
by the voices of other women, and voices from nature, with which I felt more and
more strongly identified, particularly as I read the opinions of men about us.
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And the passage by which nature joins the lizard to the snake is now observed.
That each species was not fashioned separately by God, it is concluded, and the
species are not immutable. (And of this, it is put forward that “it is derogatory that ...
And the passage by which nature joins the lizard to the snake is now observed.
That each species was not fashioned separately by God, it is concluded, and the
species are not immutable. (And of this, it is put forward that “it is derogatory that ...
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And that because of this weakness, nature has made woman a better liar, “For, as
nature has endowed the lion with claw and fang, elephant and boar with tusks,
the bull with horns and the jellyfish with obscuring liquid—in the same way she ...
And that because of this weakness, nature has made woman a better liar, “For, as
nature has endowed the lion with claw and fang, elephant and boar with tusks,
the bull with horns and the jellyfish with obscuring liquid—in the same way she ...
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| Title | Woman and Nature: The Roaring Inside Her |
| Author | Susan Griffin |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Catapult, 2016 |
| ISBN | 1619028751, 9781619028753 |
| Length | 300 pages |
| Subjects | › › History / Women Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social Social Science / Women's Studies |
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