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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Page 81
... head tossing becomes her head , a silky black mane on the pillows , large nostrils flaring , the long neck flailing back and forth , throwing the sheets to the floor , hoofs kicking at the walls , and one eye , wild - staring ...
... head tossing becomes her head , a silky black mane on the pillows , large nostrils flaring , the long neck flailing back and forth , throwing the sheets to the floor , hoofs kicking at the walls , and one eye , wild - staring ...
Page 128
... heads and tails . To figure the probability of throwing heads at least one time in two throws , it is shown that four equally possible cases may arise , heads at first and at second , heads at first and tails at second , tails at first ...
... heads and tails . To figure the probability of throwing heads at least one time in two throws , it is shown that four equally possible cases may arise , heads at first and at second , heads at first and tails at second , tails at first ...
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... head had been turned upward , at the last minute it rotated perfectly by itself and slipped out toward her hands . She said she held it gently , making the passage slow , so a sudden burst would not tear the birthing woman's body . We ...
... head had been turned upward , at the last minute it rotated perfectly by itself and slipped out toward her hands . She said she held it gently , making the passage slow , so a sudden burst would not tear the birthing woman's body . We ...
Contents
MATTER | 5 |
LAND Her Changing Face | 47 |
TIMBER What Was There for Them | 56 |
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