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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In writing this book , this paternal voice became quite real to me , and I was afraid
of it . It sprang out at me in the form of recognized opinion and told me that the
reactions I experienced in my female body to its declarations were ridiculous ...
In writing this book , this paternal voice became quite real to me , and I was afraid
of it . It sprang out at me in the form of recognized opinion and told me that the
reactions I experienced in my female body to its declarations were ridiculous ...
Page 116
( It is therefore the judgment of this hearing that the defendant was innocent of
rape and that no such crime took place . ) His voice . She hears his voice
speaking . He tells her she is always defending herself . For no reason , his voice
implies .
( It is therefore the judgment of this hearing that the defendant was innocent of
rape and that no such crime took place . ) His voice . She hears his voice
speaking . He tells her she is always defending herself . For no reason , his voice
implies .
Page 121
( They gave him his own name . ) They explain the mysterious to him . Their
knowledge is endless , and Their voices grand . Yet They ... He imitates what
They do . He makes his voice grand . He makes himself tall . He dresses in Their
clothes .
( They gave him his own name . ) They explain the mysterious to him . Their
knowledge is endless , and Their voices grand . Yet They ... He imitates what
They do . He makes his voice grand . He makes himself tall . He dresses in Their
clothes .
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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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