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 144
... played two games of backgammon with his wife , read some of a scientific book , and when tired finally , lay back again to listen while his wife read to him or played the piano . When he retired at ten or ten - thirty , he often lay ...
... played two games of backgammon with his wife , read some of a scientific book , and when tired finally , lay back again to listen while his wife read to him or played the piano . When he retired at ten or ten - thirty , he often lay ...
Page 145
... play the game of signatures , signing his likeness into the world . " ) There were forty - nine accusations against her , and numerous supple- mentary charges . She was said to have failed to weep when the Holy Scriptures were read to ...
... play the game of signatures , signing his likeness into the world . " ) There were forty - nine accusations against her , and numerous supple- mentary charges . She was said to have failed to weep when the Holy Scriptures were read to ...
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... play about the rapist who mistook pots and pans for virgins , and fondled them all night . The year her play was performed by the other sisters of the convent . The year glorified by the laughter of the nuns . That age distinguished by ...
... play about the rapist who mistook pots and pans for virgins , and fondled them all night . The year her play was performed by the other sisters of the convent . The year glorified by the laughter of the nuns . That age distinguished by ...
Contents
MATTER | 5 |
LAND Her Changing Face | 47 |
TIMBER What Was There for Them | 56 |
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