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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... hear in the Navaho chant of the mountain that a grown man sits and smokes with bears and follows directions given to ... hear us speak . But we hear . BOOK ONE MATTER How Man Regards and Makes Use of 1 PROLOGUE.
... hear in the Navaho chant of the mountain that a grown man sits and smokes with bears and follows directions given to ... hear us speak . But we hear . BOOK ONE MATTER How Man Regards and Makes Use of 1 PROLOGUE.
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... hears what is said , and she also hears what is not said . Oh , she is a marvelous listener ! Those of us who tell our stories to her seem to hear them ourselves for the first time . So clean are her ears . And we hold nothing back from ...
... hears what is said , and she also hears what is not said . Oh , she is a marvelous listener ! Those of us who tell our stories to her seem to hear them ourselves for the first time . So clean are her ears . And we hold nothing back from ...
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... hear its inner resonance , the more - than - personal elements sounding - vibrating through . M. C. RICHARDS , The ... hear . To the speed of each wave the ear adds its own frequency . What is outside us becomes us . Each cell under each ...
... hear its inner resonance , the more - than - personal elements sounding - vibrating through . M. C. RICHARDS , The ... hear . To the speed of each wave the ear adds its own frequency . What is outside us becomes us . Each cell under each ...
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MATTER | 5 |
LAND Her Changing Face | 47 |
TIMBER What Was There for Them | 56 |
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