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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Since patriarchal thought does , however , represent itself as emotionless ( objective , detached and bodiless ) , the dicta of Western civilization * and science on the subjects of woman and nature in this book are written in a parody ...
Since patriarchal thought does , however , represent itself as emotionless ( objective , detached and bodiless ) , the dicta of Western civilization * and science on the subjects of woman and nature in this book are written in a parody ...
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That indeed the thoughts of women ( and “ the inferior races " ) are said to be filled with special and personal ... And it is stated that abstract thought causes physical pain in women , that their incapacity for intellectual thought ...
That indeed the thoughts of women ( and “ the inferior races " ) are said to be filled with special and personal ... And it is stated that abstract thought causes physical pain in women , that their incapacity for intellectual thought ...
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And yet the blackbird does not fly in us but is somewhere else free of our minds , and now even free of our sight , flying in the path of her own will , she wrote , the ink from her pen flowing on this paper , her words , she thought ...
And yet the blackbird does not fly in us but is somewhere else free of our minds , and now even free of our sight , flying in the path of her own will , she wrote , the ink from her pen flowing on this paper , her words , she thought ...
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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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