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 Roaring Inside Her Susan Griffin. Also by Susan Griffin LIKE THE IRIS OF AN EYE RAPE A CHORUS OF STONES THE EROS OF EVERYDAY LIFE WHAT HER BODY THOUGHT WOMAN AND NATURE THE ROARING INSIDE HER Susan Griffin COUNTERPOINT.
The Roaring Inside Her Susan Griffin. Also by Susan Griffin LIKE THE IRIS OF AN EYE RAPE A CHORUS OF STONES THE EROS OF EVERYDAY LIFE WHAT HER BODY THOUGHT WOMAN AND NATURE THE ROARING INSIDE HER Susan Griffin COUNTERPOINT.
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... exhortations to abandon talk for action. And at the same time in some academic circles, political action has been frowned upon, as if of necessity participating in any movement corrupts the clarity of thought. But in my experience.
... exhortations to abandon talk for action. And at the same time in some academic circles, political action has been frowned upon, as if of necessity participating in any movement corrupts the clarity of thought. But in my experience.
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... thought. Along with my compatriots, I read, or one might say devoured, books and articles challenging a wide range of assumptions about everything from the body to the body politic. The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin stretched the mind ...
... thought. Along with my compatriots, I read, or one might say devoured, books and articles challenging a wide range of assumptions about everything from the body to the body politic. The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin stretched the mind ...
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... thoughts are shaped by the watersheds in which we dwell. And, particularly important to me in the mix, there was Jerome Rothenberg's Technicians of the Sacred, a cosmology-shifting collection of poetry from Indigenous cultures all over ...
... thoughts are shaped by the watersheds in which we dwell. And, particularly important to me in the mix, there was Jerome Rothenberg's Technicians of the Sacred, a cosmology-shifting collection of poetry from Indigenous cultures all over ...
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... thought what to or about whom and therefore concealed inherent structures of power. Her work in linguistics inspired me to use the passive voice for the first section of the book in which I compare statements that philosophers and ...
... thought what to or about whom and therefore concealed inherent structures of power. Her work in linguistics inspired me to use the passive voice for the first section of the book in which I compare statements that philosophers and ...
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