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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... Night of the Full Moon” reprinted from Coal, by Audre Lorde, with the permission of W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. Copyright © 1968, 1970, 1976 by Audre Lorde. Quotation from Lady of the Beasts, by Robin Morgan. Copyright © 1976 by Robin ...
... Night of the Full Moon” reprinted from Coal, by Audre Lorde, with the permission of W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. Copyright © 1968, 1970, 1976 by Audre Lorde. Quotation from Lady of the Beasts, by Robin Morgan. Copyright © 1976 by Robin ...
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... night or fearful inside a house by myself. Using the work of a sociologista who had studied men convicted of rape and my own interviews with victims and police, I came to the conclusion that rape was not motivated by any simple desire ...
... night or fearful inside a house by myself. Using the work of a sociologista who had studied men convicted of rape and my own interviews with victims and police, I came to the conclusion that rape was not motivated by any simple desire ...
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... night when I woke in a cold sweat, worried that I had created an unsolvable problem for myself by writing in two voices, until, after falling asleep and waking again, I realized that the conflict between these two perspectives would ...
... night when I woke in a cold sweat, worried that I had created an unsolvable problem for myself by writing in two voices, until, after falling asleep and waking again, I realized that the conflict between these two perspectives would ...
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... nights I had spent during my childhood in the High Sierras, gazing up in wonder at trees that reached so far above me they expanded my imagination, diving into an ice cold, turquoise pool, jolted to sharp awareness, stretching out on ...
... nights I had spent during my childhood in the High Sierras, gazing up in wonder at trees that reached so far above me they expanded my imagination, diving into an ice cold, turquoise pool, jolted to sharp awareness, stretching out on ...
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... night and day of resplendour perpetual,” it is said. And it is decided that the angels live above the moon and aid God in the movement of celestial spheres. “The good angels,” it is said, “hold cheap all the knowledge of material and ...
... night and day of resplendour perpetual,” it is said. And it is decided that the angels live above the moon and aid God in the movement of celestial spheres. “The good angels,” it is said, “hold cheap all the knowledge of material and ...
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