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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... flesh, hence closer to nature. It took only one more step to see that Western culture had placed women in the same category. The work of other feminist thinkers proved crucial to the development of this book. In those explosive times ...
... flesh, hence closer to nature. It took only one more step to see that Western culture had placed women in the same category. The work of other feminist thinkers proved crucial to the development of this book. In those explosive times ...
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... flesh, which is also matter, also illusory; it is decided that what is real is outside the cave, in a light brighter than we can imagine, that matter traps us in darkness. That the idea of matter existed before matter and is more ...
... flesh, which is also matter, also illusory; it is decided that what is real is outside the cave, in a light brighter than we can imagine, that matter traps us in darkness. That the idea of matter existed before matter and is more ...
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... flesh.” That men are moved to carnal lust when they hear or see woman, whose face is a burning wind, whose voice is a hissing serpent. It is decided that in birth the female provides the matter (the menstruum, the yolk) and that the ...
... flesh.” That men are moved to carnal lust when they hear or see woman, whose face is a burning wind, whose voice is a hissing serpent. It is decided that in birth the female provides the matter (the menstruum, the yolk) and that the ...
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... sin and afterward death came into the world because Eve consorted with the devil in the body of a serpent. That the power of the devil lies in the privy parts of men. That women act as the devil's agent and use flesh.
... sin and afterward death came into the world because Eve consorted with the devil in the body of a serpent. That the power of the devil lies in the privy parts of men. That women act as the devil's agent and use flesh.
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... flesh as bait. That women under the power of the devil meet with him secretly, in the woods (in the wilderness), at night. That they kiss him on the anus. That they offer him pitch-black candles, which he lights with a fart. That they ...
... flesh as bait. That women under the power of the devil meet with him secretly, in the woods (in the wilderness), at night. That they kiss him on the anus. That they offer him pitch-black candles, which he lights with a fart. That they ...
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