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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... things can be made without limit It is decided that vision takes place because of a ray of light emanating from the eye to the thing perceived. It is decided that God is primordial light, shining in the darkness of first matter, giving ...
... things can be made without limit It is decided that vision takes place because of a ray of light emanating from the eye to the thing perceived. It is decided that God is primordial light, shining in the darkness of first matter, giving ...
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... things, women have a different nature than men, it is observed, and it is stated that women are “intellectually like children.” That women are feebler of body and mind than men, it is said: “Frailty, thy name is woman.” And it is stated ...
... things, women have a different nature than men, it is observed, and it is stated that women are “intellectually like children.” That women are feebler of body and mind than men, it is said: “Frailty, thy name is woman.” And it is stated ...
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... things decay in time and to their end do draw.” That the face of the earth is a record of man's sin. That the height of mountains, the depth of valleys, the sites of great boulders, craters, seas, bodies of land, lakes and rivers, the ...
... things decay in time and to their end do draw.” That the face of the earth is a record of man's sin. That the height of mountains, the depth of valleys, the sites of great boulders, craters, seas, bodies of land, lakes and rivers, the ...
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... things which can be done by a few.” That “Nature is not redundant.” That “Nature is pleased with simplicity and affects not the pomp of superfluous causes.” “Vain pomp and glory of this world, I hate ye,” it is said. (And extravagance ...
... things which can be done by a few.” That “Nature is not redundant.” That “Nature is pleased with simplicity and affects not the pomp of superfluous causes.” “Vain pomp and glory of this world, I hate ye,” it is said. (And extravagance ...
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... things as they are, that He sees the particles directly. That if anyone were to know the position of all the particles at any given time he could predict the future. It is said that the sensation of color is produced by the action of ...
... things as they are, that He sees the particles directly. That if anyone were to know the position of all the particles at any given time he could predict the future. It is said that the sensation of color is produced by the action of ...
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