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 5
... decided that what is real is outside the cave , in a light brighter than we can imagine , that matter traps us in darkness . That the idea of matter existed before matter and is more perfect , ideal . Sic transit , how quickly pass ...
... decided that what is real is outside the cave , in a light brighter than we can imagine , that matter traps us in darkness . That the idea of matter existed before matter and is more perfect , ideal . Sic transit , how quickly pass ...
Page 7
... decided that God is primordial light , shining in the darkness of first matter , giving it substantial being . It is decided that geometrical optics holds the key to all understanding . It is said that the waters of the firmament ...
... decided that God is primordial light , shining in the darkness of first matter , giving it substantial being . It is decided that geometrical optics holds the key to all understanding . It is said that the waters of the firmament ...
Page 8
... decided that in birth the female provides the matter ( the men- struum , the yolk ) and that the male provides the form which is imma- terial , and that out of this union is born the embryo . And it is written in the scripture that out ...
... decided that in birth the female provides the matter ( the men- struum , the yolk ) and that the male provides the form which is imma- terial , and that out of this union is born the embryo . And it is written in the scripture that out ...
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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