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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... the earthworms, even the shellfish and the sponges, for those of us who speak our own language, and this book is dedicated in love to Adrienne Rich for her friendship and for her words PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION When the ideas in this.
... the earthworms, even the shellfish and the sponges, for those of us who speak our own language, and this book is dedicated in love to Adrienne Rich for her friendship and for her words PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION When the ideas in this.
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... speaking out about injustice would serve me and other women in still another way. In small casual meetings, held in our living rooms, women started to speak honestly to each other about our frustrations and disappointments. Confessions ...
... speaking out about injustice would serve me and other women in still another way. In small casual meetings, held in our living rooms, women started to speak honestly to each other about our frustrations and disappointments. Confessions ...
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... speak in glowing terms of free markets, as if the marketplace had no relationship to earthly necessity but were instead entirely conceptual and could thus grow as numbers grow, without boundaries and without end. This is the latest ...
... speak in glowing terms of free markets, as if the marketplace had no relationship to earthly necessity but were instead entirely conceptual and could thus grow as numbers grow, without boundaries and without end. This is the latest ...
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... he makes the trees his own WIND In which he harnesses the elements COWS (The Way We Yield) In which he domesticates the animals MULES And the domesticated speak THE SHOW HORSE And the domesticated learn to please HER BODY And he.
... he makes the trees his own WIND In which he harnesses the elements COWS (The Way We Yield) In which he domesticates the animals MULES And the domesticated speak THE SHOW HORSE And the domesticated learn to please HER BODY And he.
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... and pearl, we are girls. We are woman and nature. And he says he cannot hear us speak. But we hear. BOOK ONE MATTER How Man Regards and Makes Use of. Preface to the Third Edition Preface to the Second Edition Preface Acknowledgments ...
... and pearl, we are girls. We are woman and nature. And he says he cannot hear us speak. But we hear. BOOK ONE MATTER How Man Regards and Makes Use of. Preface to the Third Edition Preface to the Second Edition Preface Acknowledgments ...
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Adrienne Rich ALOIS PODHAJSKY animals asked atom beauty become bird blood body breast breath called child clitoris count D. H. LAWRENCE darkness daughter death decided discovered dream ears earth energy existence eyes face fear feel feet female flesh forest girls grow hair hands head hear Hexenhaus horse human imagine inside John James Audubon knew labor land learned light light-years lives man’s Marie Curie matter milk mind mother motion mouth move movement never night ourselves ovum pain particles plankton plutonium Press rape remember rider Robin Morgan secret separate shape Sigmund Freud SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR skin sleep soil space speak species speed story SUSAN GRIFFIN tambourine tell things thought told trees turn universe uterus violin vision voice vulva wave wild wind witches woman and nature WOMAN WOMAN WOMAN womb women words written York