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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... women and the natural world have been seen as versions of each other, and violated in strangely similar ways.” —Utne Reader “The Canon: 150 Great Works to Set Your Imagination on Fire” “For those inured to a steady diet of mainstream ...
... women and the natural world have been seen as versions of each other, and violated in strangely similar ways.” —Utne Reader “The Canon: 150 Great Works to Set Your Imagination on Fire” “For those inured to a steady diet of mainstream ...
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... Woman and nature: the roaring inside her/Susan Griffin. p. Previous ed.: New York: Harper & Row. 1978. Includes bibliographical references. 1. Women. 2. Nature. 3. Sex role. 4. Feminism. I. Title. HQ1150.G75 2000 305.3—dc21 99-37881 ...
... Woman and nature: the roaring inside her/Susan Griffin. p. Previous ed.: New York: Harper & Row. 1978. Includes bibliographical references. 1. Women. 2. Nature. 3. Sex role. 4. Feminism. I. Title. HQ1150.G75 2000 305.3—dc21 99-37881 ...
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... women or nature, as they expanded and dovetailed, they created an atmosphere in which a book such as this could come to be. So often in meetings or during protests, I have heard passionate exhortations to abandon talk for action. And at ...
... women or nature, as they expanded and dovetailed, they created an atmosphere in which a book such as this could come to be. So often in meetings or during protests, I have heard passionate exhortations to abandon talk for action. And at ...
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... women's rights had already been achieved. No one I knew seemed to perceive the patronizing prejudice in the term “little old ladies in tennis shoes,” as women in the emerging environmental movement were called, including the formidable ...
... women's rights had already been achieved. No one I knew seemed to perceive the patronizing prejudice in the term “little old ladies in tennis shoes,” as women in the emerging environmental movement were called, including the formidable ...
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... woman in new ways. After publishing conversations with women who had had illegal abortions, I decided to write about rape. Though I had never been raped, I was aware of how much the fear of being raped had shadowed my life, often ...
... woman in new ways. After publishing conversations with women who had had illegal abortions, I decided to write about rape. Though I had never been raped, I was aware of how much the fear of being raped had shadowed my life, often ...
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