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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... reason. Though I describe women's experiences, the subject of the book is the idea of woman, produced by a culture bent on the domination of both women and nature. Nor are men necessarily and individually the antagonists, so much as is ...
... reason. Though I describe women's experiences, the subject of the book is the idea of woman, produced by a culture bent on the domination of both women and nature. Nor are men necessarily and individually the antagonists, so much as is ...
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... reason and cool-headedness—was also reversed. Rationality itself became suspect, and passionate sensuality was enshrined. I do not agree with the idea that women are closer to nature than are men in either its traditional or inverted ...
... reason and cool-headedness—was also reversed. Rationality itself became suspect, and passionate sensuality was enshrined. I do not agree with the idea that women are closer to nature than are men in either its traditional or inverted ...
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... Reason in which he calls her unreasonable, and The Argument wherein we see the separations in his argument HIS CONTROL (How He Becomes Invulnerable) Childish Fear in which we remember his fear of the dark, and Speed wherein he speeds ...
... Reason in which he calls her unreasonable, and The Argument wherein we see the separations in his argument HIS CONTROL (How He Becomes Invulnerable) Childish Fear in which we remember his fear of the dark, and Speed wherein he speeds ...
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... reason and that reason exists to apprehend God and Nature. God is unchangeable, it is said. Logos is a quality of God created in man by God and it is eternal. The soul existed before the body and will live after it. “And I do not know ...
... reason and that reason exists to apprehend God and Nature. God is unchangeable, it is said. Logos is a quality of God created in man by God and it is eternal. The soul existed before the body and will live after it. “And I do not know ...
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... reasons.” And it is stated elsewhere that Genesis cannot be understood without a mastery of mathematics. “He who does not know mathematics cannot know any of the other sciences,” it is said again, and it is decided that all truth can be ...
... reasons.” And it is stated elsewhere that Genesis cannot be understood without a mastery of mathematics. “He who does not know mathematics cannot know any of the other sciences,” it is said again, and it is decided that all truth can be ...
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