Woman and Nature: The Roaring Inside Her"A West Coast feminist and poet draws from myth, legend, history, religion, sociology, science, and other sources to trace the evolution of attitudes toward and perceptions of women and nature."--Goodreads website. |
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Page 25
... blood . That the thinking woman , by " deflecting blood to the brain from the generative organs . . . lost touch with the sacred primitive rhythms that bound her to the deepest law of the cosmos . " ( And the young man who would develop ...
... blood . That the thinking woman , by " deflecting blood to the brain from the generative organs . . . lost touch with the sacred primitive rhythms that bound her to the deepest law of the cosmos . " ( And the young man who would develop ...
Page 83
... blood from her wound will sour milk . It will spoil fruit or the fermentation in wine ; it will break the strings of a violin ; it will poison food ; cause disease , death in battle , impotence and shrinking . The color of her blood is ...
... blood from her wound will sour milk . It will spoil fruit or the fermentation in wine ; it will break the strings of a violin ; it will poison food ; cause disease , death in battle , impotence and shrinking . The color of her blood is ...
Page 215
... blood , she said . On the night of the same day , Saturday , she reported , he operated again . After this , her sister did not sit up , she said . He used instruments again , she said , and also his hand . This time a child was ...
... blood , she said . On the night of the same day , Saturday , she reported , he operated again . After this , her sister did not sit up , she said . He used instruments again , she said , and also his hand . This time a child was ...
Contents
MATTER | 5 |
LAND Her Changing Face | 47 |
TIMBER What Was There for Them | 56 |
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Adrienne Rich ALOIS PODHAJSKY animals asked atom beauty become bird blood body breast breath called Charles Darwin child cited in DC cited in MFM cited in PSV cited in TH clitoris count darkness Darwin daughter death discovered dream earth energy existence eyes fear feel female flesh forest Freud Garden girls hair hands head hear Hexenhaus horse ibid inside Johannes Kepler John James Audubon Kepler knew labor learned light lives Loren Eiseley Marie Curie matter milk mind mother motion mouth move movement Newton ourselves ovum pain particles plankton Press René Descartes rider Science sexual shape Sigmund Freud skin soil soul space speak species speed story Susan Griffin tambourine tell things thought told trees universe uterus violin voice vulva wave wind witches Woman and Nature WOMAN WOMAN WOMAN womb women words York
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| Title | Woman and Nature: The Roaring Inside Her Harper colophon books |
| Author | Susan Griffin |
| Publisher | Harper & Row, 1978 |
| ISBN | 0060115114, 9780060115111 |
| Length | 263 pages |
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