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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... trees that had been protesting the destruction of forests in India since 18th century. Not long after our books were published, an international eco-feminism movement surfaced that included a wide range of efforts, from the work of ...
... trees that had been protesting the destruction of forests in India since 18th century. Not long after our books were published, an international eco-feminism movement surfaced that included a wide range of efforts, from the work of ...
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... trees as if they were divine messages, and an education that taught me that to ascribe intelligence and spirit to the natural world was to indulge in a foolish state of mind, something that was called, tellingly, “A Pathetic Fallacy.” I ...
... trees as if they were divine messages, and an education that taught me that to ascribe intelligence and spirit to the natural world was to indulge in a foolish state of mind, something that was called, tellingly, “A Pathetic Fallacy.” I ...
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... trees, cows, show horses and women's bodies as we all exist in patriarchy. The second book is entitled “Separation,” and beginning with the separation of a womb from a woman's body, lists and protests against all those separations which ...
... trees, cows, show horses and women's bodies as we all exist in patriarchy. The second book is entitled “Separation,” and beginning with the separation of a womb from a woman's body, lists and protests against all those separations which ...
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... In which 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.
... In which 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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... trees whisper to her. That the dead sing through her mouth and the cries of infants are clear to her. But for him this dialogue is over. He says he is not part of this world, that he was set on this world as a stranger. He sets himself ...
... trees whisper to her. That the dead sing through her mouth and the cries of infants are clear to her. But for him this dialogue is over. He says he is not part of this world, that he was set on this world as a stranger. He sets himself ...
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