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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The Yosemite Valley Seven men stand about the tree , which is now fallen and exposed . Two hold axes ; one , his left foot ... The man himself stands on that same ledge , a ledge that must have been created by the felling of that tree .
The Yosemite Valley Seven men stand about the tree , which is now fallen and exposed . Two hold axes ; one , his left foot ... The man himself stands on that same ledge , a ledge that must have been created by the felling of that tree .
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FOREST THE WAY WE STAND The poor little working - girl who had found strength to gather up the fragments of her life and build herself a shelter with them seemed to Lily to have reached the central truth of existence .
FOREST THE WAY WE STAND The poor little working - girl who had found strength to gather up the fragments of her life and build herself a shelter with them seemed to Lily to have reached the central truth of existence .
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us , how we are in the soil , how we are in the air , how we are both infinitesimal and great and how we are infinitely without any purpose you can see , in the way we stand , each alone , yet none of us separable , none of us beautiful ...
us , how we are in the soil , how we are in the air , how we are both infinitesimal and great and how we are infinitely without any purpose you can see , in the way we stand , each alone , yet none of us separable , none of us beautiful ...
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Contents
MATTER | 5 |
LAND Her Changing Face | 47 |
TIMBER What Was There for Them | 56 |
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| Title | Woman and Nature: The Roaring Inside Her Harper colophon books (New York, N.Y.) ; CN 744 Volume 744 of Harper colophon books Perennial library |
| Author | Susan Griffin |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Harper & Row, 1978 |
| ISBN | 0060907444, 9780060907440 |
| Length | 263 pages |
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