Woman and Nature: The Roaring Inside HerWomen and nature is about memory and mutilation, female anger as power, female presence as transforming force. It embraces ritual and science, history and imagination, calling up the voices and body of our earth and restoring us to knowledge of her beauty and our own. In one of the infinite false polarities of patriarchy, both the exploiter-rapists and the sexist ecology movement have lumped women and nature together in a view negative for both of us ... Griffin has collected here the most apparently disparate materials ... into an extraordinary collage which, for all the research and hard intellectual work underlying it, becomes an intense physical experience.--Back cover. |
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... achieve this form the teacher uses exercise , strapping , and encourages higher head carriage . Thus formed , the horse carries weight and can develop paces , balance and movements at the bidding of first the teacher and then the rider ...
... achieve this form the teacher uses exercise , strapping , and encourages higher head carriage . Thus formed , the horse carries weight and can develop paces , balance and movements at the bidding of first the teacher and then the rider ...
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... achieving our goal would indeed be the final irony . Yet this , it seems , is our situation . RACHEL CARSON , Silent Spring We say you cannot divert the river from the riverbed . We say that everything is moving , and we are a part of ...
... achieving our goal would indeed be the final irony . Yet this , it seems , is our situation . RACHEL CARSON , Silent Spring We say you cannot divert the river from the riverbed . We say that everything is moving , and we are a part of ...
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... achieve only the conventional , she says . But beauty demands a more arduous process . We must know these glazes intimately . We glaze small vessels with every color we possess . We try dilution and thickness . We try the pots at ...
... achieve only the conventional , she says . But beauty demands a more arduous process . We must know these glazes intimately . We glaze small vessels with every color we possess . We try dilution and thickness . We try the pots at ...
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MATTER | 5 |
LAND Her Changing Face | 47 |
TIMBER What Was There for Them | 56 |
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