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." |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 20
Page
... continues today, took place on a symbolic level inside me too. You will notice that the book has two voices. I wrote the first section in what I think of now as a parody of a patriarchal voice, one that makes declarations using passive ...
... continues today, took place on a symbolic level inside me too. You will notice that the book has two voices. I wrote the first section in what I think of now as a parody of a patriarchal voice, one that makes declarations using passive ...
Page
... continues the analogy drawn between woman and nature into explorations of the earth, 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 ...
... continues the analogy drawn between woman and nature into explorations of the earth, 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 ...
Page
... , and One from Another (The Knowledge) what passes between us, and Acoustics how we listen for signs (What he would not acknowledge), and Our Labor by which we continue MATTER REVISITED THE YEARS (Her Body Awakens) and The Anatomy.
... , and One from Another (The Knowledge) what passes between us, and Acoustics how we listen for signs (What he would not acknowledge), and Our Labor by which we continue MATTER REVISITED THE YEARS (Her Body Awakens) and The Anatomy.
Page
... continues still among the different races. And that “the white man is improving off the face of the earth even races nearly his equal.” Of the men who live in the gloom of the forest, it is whispered, one might as easily pass “for an ...
... continues still among the different races. And that “the white man is improving off the face of the earth even races nearly his equal.” Of the men who live in the gloom of the forest, it is whispered, one might as easily pass “for an ...
Page
... continues his existence in the man. (Thinking of her attempts to drink water, she is made to remember her past.) That one may take a trip backward in time, into the territory of the id. (She remembers the picture of a dog drinking from ...
... continues his existence in the man. (Thinking of her attempts to drink water, she is made to remember her past.) That one may take a trip backward in time, into the territory of the id. (She remembers the picture of a dog drinking from ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Adrienne Rich ALOIS PODHAJSKY animals asked atom beauty become bird blood body breast breath called child clitoris count D. H. LAWRENCE darkness daughter death decided discovered dream ears earth energy existence eyes face fear feel feet female flesh forest girls grow hair hands head hear Hexenhaus horse human imagine inside John James Audubon knew labor land learned light light-years lives man’s Marie Curie matter milk mind mother motion mouth move movement never night ourselves ovum pain particles plankton plutonium Press rape remember rider Robin Morgan secret separate shape Sigmund Freud SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR skin sleep soil space speak species speed story SUSAN GRIFFIN tambourine tell things thought told trees turn universe uterus violin vision voice vulva wave wild wind witches woman and nature WOMAN WOMAN WOMAN womb women words written York