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 140
... things that are created , and that these emanations enter into the pores of other created things . That sensation occurs when the emanation fits the pore . He says there are elements , homogeneous and unchangeable and indestructible ...
... things that are created , and that these emanations enter into the pores of other created things . That sensation occurs when the emanation fits the pore . He says there are elements , homogeneous and unchangeable and indestructible ...
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... things . And some of us can heal . We can read bodies with our hands , read the earth , find water , trace gravity's path . We know what grows and how to balance one thing against another . Many of us who practiced these arts were put ...
... things . And some of us can heal . We can read bodies with our hands , read the earth , find water , trace gravity's path . We know what grows and how to balance one thing against another . Many of us who practiced these arts were put ...
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... things , she says , we could not even dream . We would think her raving , but she speaks to us so sweetly of what she says can be , that we too begin to see these things . We know her clarity for our own , and as for the way things are ...
... things , she says , we could not even dream . We would think her raving , but she speaks to us so sweetly of what she says can be , that we too begin to see these things . We know her clarity for our own , and as for the way things are ...
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MATTER | 5 |
LAND Her Changing Face | 47 |
TIMBER What Was There for Them | 56 |
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