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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... speed was allied with productivity, productivity with progress, progress with a rising standard of living, one that included many appliances that in turn enabled still greater velocity. Yet in the Sixties, an alternative vision of ...
... speed was allied with productivity, productivity with progress, progress with a rising standard of living, one that included many appliances that in turn enabled still greater velocity. Yet in the Sixties, an alternative vision of ...
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... Speed wherein he speeds past what women and children fear, and Burial wherein he buries himself in her HIS CERTAINTY (How He Rules the Universe) Quantity in which he calculates existence, and Probability in which he determines the ...
... Speed wherein he speeds past what women and children fear, and Burial wherein he buries himself in her HIS CERTAINTY (How He Rules the Universe) Quantity in which he calculates existence, and Probability in which he determines the ...
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... speed gasoline engine is developed. “Where are the limits,” it is written, “before which human power will come to stop? Commonplace individuals can never imagine them beyond their own horizon but nevertheless every day that horizon is ...
... speed gasoline engine is developed. “Where are the limits,” it is written, “before which human power will come to stop? Commonplace individuals can never imagine them beyond their own horizon but nevertheless every day that horizon is ...
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... speed of thirty miles per hour. “By means of that same steam, rivers, seas are navigated. It transports us with inconceivable speed to all the extremities of the world in floating palaces which shelter the poor man, the rich man ...
... speed of thirty miles per hour. “By means of that same steam, rivers, seas are navigated. It transports us with inconceivable speed to all the extremities of the world in floating palaces which shelter the poor man, the rich man ...
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... speed of light.) And the electromagnetic field is said to have a structure and a history that can be determined. All kinds of stimuli can be associated with food, it is determined: noises, colors, shapes, touches to various parts of the ...
... speed of light.) And the electromagnetic field is said to have a structure and a history that can be determined. All kinds of stimuli can be associated with food, it is determined: noises, colors, shapes, touches to various parts of the ...
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