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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... mountain . I was stone . I was water . I was shellfish and sea anemone and sea snail , I was fish , eel , urchin . I was plankton . I was seaweed and sea grass . Here I am black and polished and round , here I am yellow 160 PASSAGE.
... mountain . I was stone . I was water . I was shellfish and sea anemone and sea snail , I was fish , eel , urchin . I was plankton . I was seaweed and sea grass . Here I am black and polished and round , here I am yellow 160 PASSAGE.
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... plankton sinks deeper , as it would in calm waters , she read ) But we say that to her passion , she brought lucidity ( it sinks out of the light , and it is only the turbulence of the sea , she read ) and to her vision , she gave the ...
... plankton sinks deeper , as it would in calm waters , she read ) But we say that to her passion , she brought lucidity ( it sinks out of the light , and it is only the turbulence of the sea , she read ) and to her vision , she gave the ...
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... plankton disappearing , crusta- ceans gone , clams , worms , sponges , what we see now floating in these pools , fish , birds flying close to the waters . This bird with the scarlet shoulders . This bird with the yellow throat . And the ...
... plankton disappearing , crusta- ceans gone , clams , worms , sponges , what we see now floating in these pools , fish , birds flying close to the waters . This bird with the scarlet shoulders . This bird with the yellow throat . And the ...
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MATTER | 5 |
LAND Her Changing Face | 47 |
TIMBER What Was There for Them | 56 |
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