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 116
... speak . She feels a weight descend inside her . Her mouth is dry . She puts no name to this . She does not tell herself she is afraid . She does not pronounce the word " violence . " His arms stop again and again short of her cheeks ...
... speak . She feels a weight descend inside her . Her mouth is dry . She puts no name to this . She does not tell herself she is afraid . She does not pronounce the word " violence . " His arms stop again and again short of her cheeks ...
Page 147
... speak to us . No one would speak to us . We were in rooms by ourselves . We were under the sheets . No one had accused us . We dreamed we were the daughters of evil , because we knew we were . We had been hiding this secret all our ...
... speak to us . No one would speak to us . We were in rooms by ourselves . We were under the sheets . No one had accused us . We dreamed we were the daughters of evil , because we knew we were . We had been hiding this secret all our ...
Page 212
... speak for their hungry need . The sweated workers , the mothers widowed with little children , the women on the streets , and I saw that their backs were bent , their eyes grown sorrowful , their hearts dead without hope . And they were ...
... speak for their hungry need . The sweated workers , the mothers widowed with little children , the women on the streets , and I saw that their backs were bent , their eyes grown sorrowful , their hearts dead without hope . And they were ...
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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