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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... 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 Sylvia McLaughlin, and her friends Kay Kerr, the ...
... 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 Sylvia McLaughlin, and her friends Kay Kerr, the ...
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... knew from the many days and nights I had spent during my childhood in the High Sierras, gazing up in wonder at trees that reached so far above me they expanded my imagination, diving into an ice cold, turquoise pool, jolted to sharp ...
... knew from the many days and nights I had spent during my childhood in the High Sierras, gazing up in wonder at trees that reached so far above me they expanded my imagination, diving into an ice cold, turquoise pool, jolted to sharp ...
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... knew her skill and she knew it well. She could speak more than one language. She spoke their language, and she spoke her own, which they could not speak. (The father, it was recorded, frequently disposed of his infant daughters in ...
... knew her skill and she knew it well. She could speak more than one language. She spoke their language, and she spoke her own, which they could not speak. (The father, it was recorded, frequently disposed of his infant daughters in ...
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... knew this land which they had never seen before, for which they had no maps. She told them she had lived in this land as a child, that she had been taken from this place, from her girlhood. Where they were afraid they could not go on ...
... knew this land which they had never seen before, for which they had no maps. She told them she had lived in this land as a child, that she had been taken from this place, from her girlhood. Where they were afraid they could not go on ...
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... knew that their names and those who did not would live on those who were known and that the great estates and those testifying to their glory and fame who were unknown would live on those whose lives were vanished and that the power ...
... knew that their names and those who did not would live on those who were known and that the great estates and those testifying to their glory and fame who were unknown would live on those whose lives were vanished and that the power ...
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