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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Page 86
... hands are familiar . We know these hands . But we do not know these faces . This skin . Its smoothness ; its tightness . We shut our eyes . We try to turn away from ourselves . None of this fear of ourselves shows back to us in the face ...
... hands are familiar . We know these hands . But we do not know these faces . This skin . Its smoothness ; its tightness . We shut our eyes . We try to turn away from ourselves . None of this fear of ourselves shows back to us in the face ...
Page 191
... hands ; the clay has qualities of its own , and we must yield to the clay's knowl- edge . She says every rule we ... hands , the particular print of each palm . As our hands become cold from the clay , she asks us do we feel the elements ...
... hands ; the clay has qualities of its own , and we must yield to the clay's knowl- edge . She says every rule we ... hands , the particular print of each palm . As our hands become cold from the clay , she asks us do we feel the elements ...
Page 203
... hands reach out into the snow and we wash this ice over our faces . As we awaken , our skin stings again . And as we push our bodies toward movement , we ache , and we feel pain again in our hands and our feet . We shiver . We are on ...
... hands reach out into the snow and we wash this ice over our faces . As we awaken , our skin stings again . And as we push our bodies toward movement , we ache , and we feel pain again in our hands and our feet . We shiver . We are on ...
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MATTER | 5 |
LAND Her Changing Face | 47 |
TIMBER What Was There for Them | 56 |
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