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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... sounds great distances over lines, stronger and more violent engines of war, and that men will fly in the air, and go under water in great ships. And now the nature of time and of space is wondered at, and it is said that there are two ...
... sounds great distances over lines, stronger and more violent engines of war, and that men will fly in the air, and go under water in great ships. And now the nature of time and of space is wondered at, and it is said that there are two ...
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... sound,” the “great danger of man ... sick women especially.” That a man whose house is infested with a woman is weaker for it. For men must work and women must weep, it is sung. That woman elicits pity But that those who would sympathize.
... sound,” the “great danger of man ... sick women especially.” That a man whose house is infested with a woman is weaker for it. For men must work and women must weep, it is sung. That woman elicits pity But that those who would sympathize.
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... sounds like the chatter of apes.) (There are tribes in South America, it is told, whose language is so deficient they cannot converse in the dark.) (Negroes, it is reported, like orang-utans and chimpanzees, are difficult to teach after ...
... sounds like the chatter of apes.) (There are tribes in South America, it is told, whose language is so deficient they cannot converse in the dark.) (Negroes, it is reported, like orang-utans and chimpanzees, are difficult to teach after ...
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... sound. The chain reaction is invented. 1941 Plutonium is discovered. 1945 Hiroshima, Nagasaki, are destroyed by atomic explosion. Antimatter is found. A particle with a charge opposite to the electron is found. And it is said that when ...
... sound. The chain reaction is invented. 1941 Plutonium is discovered. 1945 Hiroshima, Nagasaki, are destroyed by atomic explosion. Antimatter is found. A particle with a charge opposite to the electron is found. And it is said that when ...
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