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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... becoming me. That is why I dedicated the book to creatures whom Descartes declared would be ridiculous to imagine as having souls. And it is why now, thinking of future generations, I will end this introduction with a prayer. As we find ...
... becoming me. That is why I dedicated the book to creatures whom Descartes declared would be ridiculous to imagine as having souls. And it is why now, thinking of future generations, I will end this introduction with a prayer. As we find ...
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... become trees or animals or human beings, twenty years seems like a very short period of time. Yet the book was written in the midst of a crisis that has deepened in the intervening years. When life as we know it hangs in the balance ...
... become trees or animals or human beings, twenty years seems like a very short period of time. Yet the book was written in the midst of a crisis that has deepened in the intervening years. When life as we know it hangs in the balance ...
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... become as divided from an awareness of natural process than any man. But even women who have a more direct knowledge ... becomes possible to imagine men as farther away from nature. And in this way, both men and women can indulge in the ...
... become as divided from an awareness of natural process than any man. But even women who have a more direct knowledge ... becomes possible to imagine men as farther away from nature. And in this way, both men and women can indulge in the ...
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... becomes more actual, treating of the effect of patriarchal logic on material beings. And so the first book, “Matter,” continues the analogy drawn between woman and nature into explorations of the earth, trees, cows, show horses and ...
... becomes more actual, treating of the effect of patriarchal logic on material beings. And so the first book, “Matter,” continues the analogy drawn between woman and nature into explorations of the earth, trees, cows, show horses and ...
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... Becomes Invulnerable) Childish Fear in which we remember his fear of the dark, and 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 ...
... Becomes Invulnerable) Childish Fear in which we remember his fear of the dark, and 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 ...
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