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. |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 24
Page 115
... sound . It is said that there are vibrations too rapid for the human ear and vibrations too slow , that vibrations of sound increase in warmer or thicker media , that the struc- ture of the inner ear increases or decreases the frequency ...
... sound . It is said that there are vibrations too rapid for the human ear and vibrations too slow , that vibrations of sound increase in warmer or thicker media , that the struc- ture of the inner ear increases or decreases the frequency ...
Page 202
... Sound only a milder form of the shock waves made by explosions , by blasts . why these stories had been kept from us Sound one of the ways we know how many stories in which concentrated energy are in this silence diffuses itself about ...
... Sound only a milder form of the shock waves made by explosions , by blasts . why these stories had been kept from us Sound one of the ways we know how many stories in which concentrated energy are in this silence diffuses itself about ...
Page 227
... sound , is that my voice crying out ? The sunlight in you is making my breath sing , sing your name , your name to you , beautiful one , I could kiss your bones , put my teeth in you , white gleam , whiteness , I chew , beautiful one ...
... sound , is that my voice crying out ? The sunlight in you is making my breath sing , sing your name , your name to you , beautiful one , I could kiss your bones , put my teeth in you , white gleam , whiteness , I chew , beautiful one ...
Contents
MATTER | 5 |
LAND Her Changing Face | 47 |
TIMBER What Was There for Them | 56 |
Copyright | |
24 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Adrienne Rich ALOIS PODHAJSKY animals asked atom beauty become bird blood body breast breath called Charles Darwin child cited in DC cited in MFM cited in PSV cited in TH clitoris count darkness Darwin daughter death discovered dream earth energy existence eyes fear feel female flesh forest Freud Garden girls hair hands head hear Hexenhaus horse ibid inside Isaac Newton Johannes Kepler John James Audubon Kepler knew labor learned light lives Loren Eiseley Marie Curie matter milk mind mother motion mouth move movement Newton ourselves ovum pain particles plankton Press René Descartes rider Science sexual shape Sigmund Freud skin soil soul space speak species speed story tambourine tell things thought told trees universe uterus violin voice vulva wave wind witches woman and nature WOMAN WOMAN WOMAN womb women words York