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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... darkness led to more darkness , until darkness leading to darkness was all we knew . The shape of this cave , our bodies , this darkness . This darkness which sits so close to us we cannot see , so close that we move away in fear . We ...
... darkness led to more darkness , until darkness leading to darkness was all we knew . The shape of this cave , our bodies , this darkness . This darkness which sits so close to us we cannot see , so close that we move away in fear . We ...
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... darkness , what we seek is here , warm and covered with water , we sweat in this effort , piercing the darkness , laying our skin on the cool stone , tracing the new image over the old , etching these lines which become clear to us now ...
... darkness , what we seek is here , warm and covered with water , we sweat in this effort , piercing the darkness , laying our skin on the cool stone , tracing the new image over the old , etching these lines which become clear to us now ...
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... darkness . 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 ...
... darkness . 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 ...
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MATTER | 5 |
LAND Her Changing Face | 47 |
TIMBER What Was There for Them | 56 |
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