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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... ourselves and the planet that sustains us, a monumental shift in both the ways we think and the ways we live will be required. Certainly at the time, whether through the resurgence of handicrafts or dreams of a more simple life lived on ...
... ourselves and the planet that sustains us, a monumental shift in both the ways we think and the ways we live will be required. Certainly at the time, whether through the resurgence of handicrafts or dreams of a more simple life lived on ...
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... ourselves today on the brink of destroying the natural world that has sustained us, let us have the courage not just to shift to sustainable technologies, but to change the very way we see this world and ourselves. SUSAN GRIFFIN ...
... ourselves today on the brink of destroying the natural world that has sustained us, let us have the courage not just to shift to sustainable technologies, but to change the very way we see this world and ourselves. SUSAN GRIFFIN ...
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... ourselves. The third book, called “Passage,” finally separates our consciousness from the consciousness of patriarchy, and thus the fourth book is called “Her Vision: Now She Sees Through Her Own Eyes.” In “Her Vision,” all that we have ...
... ourselves. The third book, called “Passage,” finally separates our consciousness from the consciousness of patriarchy, and thus the fourth book is called “Her Vision: Now She Sees Through Her Own Eyes.” In “Her Vision,” all that we have ...
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