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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... movement rallied to restore the right of free speech, claim equality and Civil Rights, protest nuclear testing, Hippies gathered to embrace the widening of consciousness through music, drugs, and communal living. And if in the beginning ...
... movement rallied to restore the right of free speech, claim equality and Civil Rights, protest nuclear testing, Hippies gathered to embrace the widening of consciousness through music, drugs, and communal living. And if in the beginning ...
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... movement for change. Accordingly, the Sixties was a fervent period not only in action but in thought. Along with my ... movement, that women's rights had already been achieved. No one I knew seemed to perceive the patronizing prejudice ...
... movement for change. Accordingly, the Sixties was a fervent period not only in action but in thought. Along with my ... movement, that women's rights had already been achieved. No one I knew seemed to perceive the patronizing prejudice ...
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... movement on both the West and East Coasts had its own poetry too, describing life as women saw it then, with vibrant honesty, rousing chants, wit, irony. Lines cut to the quick of our lives, as with Judy Grahn's (from her Book of the ...
... movement on both the West and East Coasts had its own poetry too, describing life as women saw it then, with vibrant honesty, rousing chants, wit, irony. Lines cut to the quick of our lives, as with Judy Grahn's (from her Book of the ...
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... movements practiced in Berkeley or just down the coast, at Esalen, which were exploring the wisdom of the human body ... movement for liberation. Julia Stanley Penelope, for instance, had published a critique (employing deconstruction ...
... movements practiced in Berkeley or just down the coast, at Esalen, which were exploring the wisdom of the human body ... movement for liberation. Julia Stanley Penelope, for instance, had published a critique (employing deconstruction ...
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... movement, a woman's movement to save trees that had been protesting the destruction of forests in India since 18th century. Not long after our books were published, an international eco-feminism movement surfaced that included a wide ...
... movement, a woman's movement to save trees that had been protesting the destruction of forests in India since 18th century. Not long after our books were published, an international eco-feminism movement surfaced that included a wide ...
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