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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... 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 seen in the first two books from the eye of ...
... 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 seen in the first two books from the eye of ...
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... separates himself from woman and nature, and The Image wherein he makes woman and nature the object of his art, and Marriage wherein he makes woman and nature a part of himself HIS POWER (He Tames What Is Wild) The Hunt whereby he ...
... separates himself from woman and nature, and The Image wherein he makes woman and nature the object of his art, and Marriage wherein he makes woman and nature a part of himself HIS POWER (He Tames What Is Wild) The Hunt whereby he ...
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... SEPARATE. REJOINED. MYSTERY (How the Divided Come Together Again) What had terrified him THE OPENING We enter a new space. We enter a new time (The territory beyond his vigilance) OUR DREAMS (What Lies Under Our Stillness) Our Flying, our ...
... SEPARATE. REJOINED. MYSTERY (How the Divided Come Together Again) What had terrified him THE OPENING We enter a new space. We enter a new time (The territory beyond his vigilance) OUR DREAMS (What Lies Under Our Stillness) Our Flying, our ...
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... separate the corporeal from the spiritual creation. That the space above is infinite, indivisible, immutable, and is the immensity of God. That the earth is a central sphere surrounded by concentric zones, perfect circles of air, ether ...
... separate the corporeal from the spiritual creation. That the space above is infinite, indivisible, immutable, and is the immensity of God. That the earth is a central sphere surrounded by concentric zones, perfect circles of air, ether ...
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... separately by God, it is concluded, and the species are not immutable. (And of this, it is put forward that “it is derogatory that the Creator ... should have created each of the myriad of creeping parasites and slimy worms which have ...
... separately by God, it is concluded, and the species are not immutable. (And of this, it is put forward that “it is derogatory that the Creator ... should have created each of the myriad of creeping parasites and slimy worms which have ...
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