Woman and Nature: The Roaring Inside Her"Women 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 us both ... Griffin has collected here the most apparently disparate materials (lumbering manuals, gynecology texts, the pronouncements of early theologians, annals of American exploration, office manuals, poetry, the dreams of the scientists, etc.) 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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... and pain mitigated , and one body transformed to another , new species created , new instru- ments of destruction , such as poisons , invented , the time of germination accelerated , composts for the earth fabricated , new foods 20 MATTER.
... and pain mitigated , and one body transformed to another , new species created , new instru- ments of destruction , such as poisons , invented , the time of germination accelerated , composts for the earth fabricated , new foods 20 MATTER.
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... destruction in men seeks power over nature . That in woman her body predisposes that she turn this instinct for destruction inward . ( " a new fantastic toilette , Russian half - boots of violet - blue velvet trimmed with ermine , a ...
... destruction in men seeks power over nature . That in woman her body predisposes that she turn this instinct for destruction inward . ( " a new fantastic toilette , Russian half - boots of violet - blue velvet trimmed with ermine , a ...
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... destruction . It is suggested that the formation of hurricanes might be stopped if the excess heating and evaporation of the oceans could be stopped . ( When she got to the trash burner , instead of turning back to the door where the ...
... destruction . It is suggested that the formation of hurricanes might be stopped if the excess heating and evaporation of the oceans could be stopped . ( When she got to the trash burner , instead of turning back to the door where the ...
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MATTER | 5 |
LAND Her Changing Face | 47 |
TIMBER What Was There for Them | 56 |
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