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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( If statistically one third of all electrons have a speed of 1000 to 1100 seconds , the probability of finding one electron at that speed is one third , it is said . ) ( Yet it is admitted it is impossible to find one electron at any ...
( If statistically one third of all electrons have a speed of 1000 to 1100 seconds , the probability of finding one electron at that speed is one third , it is said . ) ( Yet it is admitted it is impossible to find one electron at any ...
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Speed The Futurist Morality will defend man from the decay caused by slowness , by memory , by analysis , by repose and habit . Human energy centupled by speed will master time and space . . . . The intoxication of great speeds in cars ...
Speed The Futurist Morality will defend man from the decay caused by slowness , by memory , by analysis , by repose and habit . Human energy centupled by speed will master time and space . . . . The intoxication of great speeds in cars ...
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But at the speed of light , he lets her know , mass no longer exists ; she is incapable of that kind of speed , he says , she would perish at that speed . And time in the sky , he tells her , is measured in lightyears .
But at the speed of light , he lets her know , mass no longer exists ; she is incapable of that kind of speed , he says , she would perish at that speed . And time in the sky , he tells her , is measured in lightyears .
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User Review - bness2 - LibraryThingI realize this is considered a classic in feminist literature, but it is not anything like what I was expecting and I found Griffin's stream of consciousness style to be very distracting. This is not ... Read full review
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Contents
MATTER | 5 |
LAND Her Changing Face | 47 |
TIMBER What Was There for Them | 56 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | Woman and Nature: The Roaring Inside Her |
| Author | Susan Griffin |
| Publisher | Harper & Row, 1978 |
| ISBN | 0060115114, 9780060115111 |
| Length | 263 pages |
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