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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... man does not consider himself a part of nature , but indeed consid- ers himself superior to matter , seemed to me to gain significance when placed against man's attitude that woman is both inferior to him and closer to nature . Hence ...
... man does not consider himself a part of nature , but indeed consid- ers himself superior to matter , seemed to me to gain significance when placed against man's attitude that woman is both inferior to him and closer to nature . Hence ...
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The Roaring Inside Her Susan Griffin. That women lead to man's corruption . Women are " the Devil's Gate- way , " it ... man was taken Eve , and because she was born of man he also named her : " She shall be called Woman . ” And it is ...
The Roaring Inside Her Susan Griffin. That women lead to man's corruption . Women are " the Devil's Gate- way , " it ... man was taken Eve , and because she was born of man he also named her : " She shall be called Woman . ” And it is ...
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... man's protection , " it is sung . And it is written that " every woman is always more or less an invalid . ” That ... man on seeing suffering can say , " Die , if you will . I am safe . " ) But it is also written that " the sick are the ...
... man's protection , " it is sung . And it is written that " every woman is always more or less an invalid . ” That ... man on seeing suffering can say , " Die , if you will . I am safe . " ) But it is also written that " the sick are the ...
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MATTER | 5 |
LAND Her Changing Face | 47 |
TIMBER What Was There for Them | 56 |
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