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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... turn enabled still greater velocity. Yet in the Sixties, an alternative vision of society had already begun to evolve. As a powerful student movement rallied to restore the right of free speech, claim equality and Civil Rights, protest ...
... turn enabled still greater velocity. Yet in the Sixties, an alternative vision of society had already begun to evolve. As a powerful student movement rallied to restore the right of free speech, claim equality and Civil Rights, protest ...
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... turning into a dumping ground for industrial waste and landfill. Though I was painfully aware that both my mother and my grandmother had been imprisoned by prescribed female roles, I was convinced that times had changed and my life ...
... turning into a dumping ground for industrial waste and landfill. Though I was painfully aware that both my mother and my grandmother had been imprisoned by prescribed female roles, I was convinced that times had changed and my life ...
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... turns of mind. This must be said also for Frances Jaffe and Mark Linenthal and Beverly Dahlen. June Jordan has been deeply understanding and supportive. Tillie Olsen, Kathleen Barry, Kathleen Fraser, Rena Rosenwasser, Pat Loomes, Karen ...
... turns of mind. This must be said also for Frances Jaffe and Mark Linenthal and Beverly Dahlen. June Jordan has been deeply understanding and supportive. Tillie Olsen, Kathleen Barry, Kathleen Fraser, Rena Rosenwasser, Pat Loomes, Karen ...
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... turns out the first ton of cast iron steel from his converter. Through evolution, “All corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress toward perfection,” it is written. “The brain stands vertically poised on the summit of the ...
... turns out the first ton of cast iron steel from his converter. Through evolution, “All corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress toward perfection,” it is written. “The brain stands vertically poised on the summit of the ...
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... are nature, we are told (That the male mind, just as the male organism creates variation, has the power of discovering new experience, and new laws of nature, which become, in their turn, new laws of action.) We are nature, we.
... are nature, we are told (That the male mind, just as the male organism creates variation, has the power of discovering new experience, and new laws of nature, which become, in their turn, new laws of action.) We are nature, we.
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