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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... purpose to perfect the creation " and that animals are diverted from reaching perfection by the mutability of the world . ( And it is wondered if the orang - utan might have been diverted from perfection by the wilderness . ) Yet the ...
... purpose to perfect the creation " and that animals are diverted from reaching perfection by the mutability of the world . ( And it is wondered if the orang - utan might have been diverted from perfection by the wilderness . ) Yet the ...
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... purpose you can understand . Yet what you fail to know we know , and the knowing is in us , how we have grown this way , why these years were not one of them heedless , why we are shaped the way we are , not all straight to your purpose ...
... purpose you can understand . Yet what you fail to know we know , and the knowing is in us , how we have grown this way , why these years were not one of them heedless , why we are shaped the way we are , not all straight to your purpose ...
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... purpose you can see , in the way we stand , each alone , yet none of us separable , none of us beautiful when separate but all exquisite as we stand , each moment heeded in this cycle , no detail unlovely . THE WIND Ask who keeps the ...
... purpose you can see , in the way we stand , each alone , yet none of us separable , none of us beautiful when separate but all exquisite as we stand , each moment heeded in this cycle , no detail unlovely . THE WIND Ask who keeps the ...
Contents
MATTER | 5 |
LAND Her Changing Face | 47 |
TIMBER What Was There for Them | 56 |
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