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 59
... close together so they will grow straight and tall to reach the light . ( There should be one central stenographic pool to render service for the entire office instead of small groups of uncontrolled stenographers throughout the office ...
... close together so they will grow straight and tall to reach the light . ( There should be one central stenographic pool to render service for the entire office instead of small groups of uncontrolled stenographers throughout the office ...
Page 74
... close to the earth , our ears hearing only inarticulate cries , our eyes hard with obstinate labor , our mouths shut for all but necessity , our brains only calculators for simple quantities , three cups of flour , ten yards of flannel ...
... close to the earth , our ears hearing only inarticulate cries , our eyes hard with obstinate labor , our mouths shut for all but necessity , our brains only calculators for simple quantities , three cups of flour , ten yards of flannel ...
Page 156
... close . Where the women keep themselves at a distance . Where the temptation to speak becomes large and the fear of speaking larger . Where all her words are dressed . And the mother teaches her daughter how to wear her hair . The room ...
... close . Where the women keep themselves at a distance . Where the temptation to speak becomes large and the fear of speaking larger . Where all her words are dressed . And the mother teaches her daughter how to wear her hair . The room ...
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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