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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... soil and make mountains, that water passes from land to sea to land, that as the earth is worn away it is built again, and finally it is agreed that “nature lives in motion.” And now in the “traces of vanished limbs, soldered wing cases ...
... soil and make mountains, that water passes from land to sea to land, that as the earth is worn away it is built again, and finally it is agreed that “nature lives in motion.” And now in the “traces of vanished limbs, soldered wing cases ...
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... soil, we are trees, rivers, we are wind, we carry the birds, the birds, we are cows, mules, we are horses, we are Solid elements, cause and effect, determinism and objectivity, it is said, are lost. matter. We are flesh, we breathe, we ...
... soil, we are trees, rivers, we are wind, we carry the birds, the birds, we are cows, mules, we are horses, we are Solid elements, cause and effect, determinism and objectivity, it is said, are lost. matter. We are flesh, we breathe, we ...
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... soil. Pine. Otter. Canyon. Musk ox. She gives up her secrets. He is the first to know, and he gives names to what he sees. He records the existence of these things. He is thinking to preserve these moments for posterity. He draws a map ...
... soil. Pine. Otter. Canyon. Musk ox. She gives up her secrets. He is the first to know, and he gives names to what he sees. He records the existence of these things. He is thinking to preserve these moments for posterity. He draws a map ...
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... soil under cultivation initiates a breakdown of what may be called the “body” of the soil. WILLIAM A. ALBRECHT, “Physical, Chemical, Biological Changes in Soil Community,” Man's Role in Changing the Face of the Earth He breaks the ...
... soil under cultivation initiates a breakdown of what may be called the “body” of the soil. WILLIAM A. ALBRECHT, “Physical, Chemical, Biological Changes in Soil Community,” Man's Role in Changing the Face of the Earth He breaks the ...
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... soil. (Over and over he can plant the same plot of land with the same crop.) He says that the soil is a lifeless place of storage, he says that the soil is what is tilled by farmers. He says that the land need no longer lie fallow. That ...
... soil. (Over and over he can plant the same plot of land with the same crop.) He says that the soil is a lifeless place of storage, he says that the soil is what is tilled by farmers. He says that the land need no longer lie fallow. That ...
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