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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... stand three other men . To the far left at the edge , one of them has driven his ax into the tree , so that it stands handle up without his holding it . He supports himself with one hand on the trunk and another on a plank of wood which ...
... stand three other men . To the far left at the edge , one of them has driven his ax into the tree , so that it stands handle up without his holding it . He supports himself with one hand on the trunk and another on a plank of wood which ...
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... stand , you can see we have grown up this way together , out of the same soil , with the same rains , leaning in the same way toward the sun . See how we lean together in the same direction . How the dead limbs of one of us rest in the ...
... stand , you can see we have grown up this way together , out of the same soil , with the same rains , leaning in the same way toward the sun . See how we lean together in the same direction . How the dead limbs of one of us rest in the ...
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... 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 wind Ask what is FOREST 221.
... 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 wind Ask what is FOREST 221.
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MATTER | 5 |
LAND Her Changing Face | 47 |
TIMBER What Was There for Them | 56 |
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