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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What we did not know existed but saw as children , our whole lives drawn here ,
image over image , past time , beyond space . The shape of a cave , the bud , the
chrysalis , the shell , what new form we seek in this darkness , our hands feeling ...
What we did not know existed but saw as children , our whole lives drawn here ,
image over image , past time , beyond space . The shape of a cave , the bud , the
chrysalis , the shell , what new form we seek in this darkness , our hands feeling ...
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We not so different from darkness , not seen but known as darkness itself , and
dark to ourselves . She sleeps . Her sleep is like death . And what is she , in this
night , becoming ! Buried from the light like the soil under the ice frozen solid .
We not so different from darkness , not seen but known as darkness itself , and
dark to ourselves . She sleeps . Her sleep is like death . And what is she , in this
night , becoming ! Buried from the light like the soil under the ice frozen solid .
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The darkness undulates . The darkness is hot against her . The darkness is
growing , pressing into her . She is the darkness . She is heat . She grows . She
presses the child ' s face to her face . Smallness — she closes her eyes in the
softness ...
The darkness undulates . The darkness is hot against her . The darkness is
growing , pressing into her . She is the darkness . She is heat . She grows . She
presses the child ' s face to her face . Smallness — she closes her eyes in the
softness ...
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Contents
PROLOGUE | 1 |
LAND Her Changing Face | 47 |
TIMBER What Was There for Them | 56 |
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| Title | Woman and Nature: The Roaring Inside Her Harper colophon books (New York, N.Y.) ; CN 744 Volume 744 of Harper colophon books Perennial library |
| Author | Susan Griffin |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Harper & Row, 1978 |
| ISBN | 0060907444, 9780060907440 |
| Length | 263 pages |
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