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 xv
Since patriarchal thought does , however , represent itself as emotionless (
objective , detached and bodiless ) , the dicta of Western civilization * and
science on the subjects of woman and nature in this book are written in a parody
of a voice ...
Since patriarchal thought does , however , represent itself as emotionless (
objective , detached and bodiless ) , the dicta of Western civilization * and
science on the subjects of woman and nature in this book are written in a parody
of a voice ...
Page 26
That indeed the thoughts of women ( and “ the inferior races ” ) are said to be
filled with special and personal experience but ... And it is stated that abstract
thought causes physical pain in women , that their incapacity for intellectual
thought is a ...
That indeed the thoughts of women ( and “ the inferior races ” ) are said to be
filled with special and personal experience but ... And it is stated that abstract
thought causes physical pain in women , that their incapacity for intellectual
thought is a ...
Page 226
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 , having nothing ...
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 , having nothing ...
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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
PROLOGUE | 1 |
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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