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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One of the loudest complaints which this book makes about patriarchal thought ( or the thought of civilized man ) is that it claims to be objective , and separated from emotion , and so it is appropriate that the style of this book does ...
One of the loudest complaints which this book makes about patriarchal thought ( or the thought of civilized man ) is that it claims to be objective , and separated from emotion , and so it is appropriate that the style of this book does ...
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That indeed the thoughts of women ( and “ the inferior races ” ) are said to be filled with special and personal ... And it is stated that abstract thought causes physical pain in women , that their incapacity for intellectual thought ...
That indeed the thoughts of women ( and “ the inferior races ” ) are said to be filled with special and personal ... And it is stated that abstract thought causes physical pain in women , that their incapacity for intellectual thought ...
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And yet the blackbird does not fly in us but is somewhere else free of our minds , and now even free of our sight , flying in the path of her own will , she wrote , the ink from her pen flowing on this paper , her words , she thought ...
And yet the blackbird does not fly in us but is somewhere else free of our minds , and now even free of our sight , flying in the path of her own will , she wrote , the ink from her pen flowing on this paper , her words , she thought ...
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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 Harper colophon books |
| Author | Susan Griffin |
| Publisher | Harper & Row, 1978 |
| ISBN | 0060115114, 9780060115111 |
| Length | 263 pages |
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