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 53
He says that the land need no longer lie fallow . That what went on in her
quietude is no longer a secret , that the ways of the land can be managed . That
the farmer can ask whatever he wishes of the land . ( He replaces the fungi ,
bacteria ...
He says that the land need no longer lie fallow . That what went on in her
quietude is no longer a secret , that the ways of the land can be managed . That
the farmer can ask whatever he wishes of the land . ( He replaces the fungi ,
bacteria ...
Page 54
No longer praying , no longer imploring , he pronounces words from a distance
and his orders are carried out . Even with his back turned to her she yields to him
. And in his mind , he imagines that he can conceive without her . In his mind he ...
No longer praying , no longer imploring , he pronounces words from a distance
and his orders are carried out . Even with his back turned to her she yields to him
. And in his mind , he imagines that he can conceive without her . In his mind he ...
Page 118
... emotions color thought because we cry out thought is no longer objective
because we are shakinig and therefore no longer describes what is real shaking
in our rage , because we are shaking in our rage and we are no longer
reasonable .
... emotions color thought because we cry out thought is no longer objective
because we are shakinig and therefore no longer describes what is real shaking
in our rage , because we are shaking in our rage and we are no longer
reasonable .
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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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