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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( And when we hear in the Navaho chant of the mountain that a grown man sits
and smokes with bears and follows directions given to him by squirrels , we are
surprised . We had thought only little girls spoke with animals . ) We are the bird '
s ...
( And when we hear in the Navaho chant of the mountain that a grown man sits
and smokes with bears and follows directions given to him by squirrels , we are
surprised . We had thought only little girls spoke with animals . ) We are the bird '
s ...
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It is everywhere , our own voices screaming , we hear our own voices , there is
nowhere we can hide , the pain is inescapable , telling us , over and over , of our
murderous impulses , our appetite for death . We begin to feel the heat of our own
...
It is everywhere , our own voices screaming , we hear our own voices , there is
nowhere we can hide , the pain is inescapable , telling us , over and over , of our
murderous impulses , our appetite for death . We begin to feel the heat of our own
...
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Because that deft tongue washed out what stops up most of our hearing , she can
hear most clearly . She can even , yes , even hear what the birds say . ( And the
birds bring messages from the dead , and the dead bring messages from the ...
Because that deft tongue washed out what stops up most of our hearing , she can
hear most clearly . She can even , yes , even hear what the birds say . ( And the
birds bring messages from the dead , and the dead bring messages from the ...
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Contents
PROLOGUE | 1 |
LAND Her Changing Face | 47 |
TIMBER What Was There for Them | 56 |
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| Title | Woman and Nature: The Roaring Inside Her Harper colophon books (New York, N.Y.) ; CN 744 Volume 744 of Harper colophon books Perennial library |
| Author | Susan Griffin |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Harper & Row, 1978 |
| ISBN | 0060907444, 9780060907440 |
| Length | 263 pages |
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