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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... land of the spirits . JOHN JAMES AUDUBON , " The Lost One " Suddenly he finds he cannot see . He is surrounded by fog and the grass is taller than he is . With every step , his ignorance deepens . He is lost . He cannot see his way out ...
... land of the spirits . JOHN JAMES AUDUBON , " The Lost One " Suddenly he finds he cannot see . He is surrounded by fog and the grass is taller than he is . With every step , his ignorance deepens . He is lost . He cannot see his way out ...
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... land will bear his name . After him will come other men who will pronounce these syllables and acknowledge his ownership . And they will change the face of this land . Primogeniture In law , rule of inheritance whereby land descends to ...
... land will bear his name . After him will come other men who will pronounce these syllables and acknowledge his ownership . And they will change the face of this land . Primogeniture In law , rule of inheritance whereby land descends to ...
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... land with the same crop . ) He says that the soil is a lifeless place of storage , he says that the soil is what is tilled by farmers . He says that the land need no longer lie fallow . That what went on in her quietude is no longer a ...
... land with the same crop . ) He says that the soil is a lifeless place of storage , he says that the soil is what is tilled by farmers . He says that the land need no longer lie fallow . That what went on in her quietude is no longer a ...
Contents
MATTER | 5 |
LAND Her Changing Face | 47 |
TIMBER What Was There for Them | 56 |
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