Woman and Nature: The Roaring Inside Her"A West Coast feminist and poet draws from myth, legend, history, religion, sociology, science, and other sources to trace the evolution of attitudes toward and perceptions of women and nature."--Goodreads website. |
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Page 54
What device she can use to continue she does . ... cannot remember why this
began , or what she was like before , or if she will survive without what he gives
her to take , but that she does not know , or cannot remember , why she continues
.
What device she can use to continue she does . ... cannot remember why this
began , or what she was like before , or if she will survive without what he gives
her to take , but that she does not know , or cannot remember , why she continues
.
Page 192
clay and they continue to work , despite our fear , they continue and this particular
clay speaks to them . And now as our hands give us knowledge , fear becomes
wonder : we are amazed at this shape we have never seen before which we ...
clay and they continue to work , despite our fear , they continue and this particular
clay speaks to them . And now as our hands give us knowledge , fear becomes
wonder : we are amazed at this shape we have never seen before which we ...
Page 203
This has always been , we tell ourselves . Yet something in us is changing : our
hearts beat slower and slower . And we who were so eager to go on think we
want to rest here in this place . That it is best not to continue . Our bodies grow
very ...
This has always been , we tell ourselves . Yet something in us is changing : our
hearts beat slower and slower . And we who were so eager to go on think we
want to rest here in this place . That it is best not to continue . Our bodies grow
very ...
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User Review - bness2 - LibraryThingI realize this is considered a classic in feminist literature, but it is not anything like what I was expecting and I found Griffin's stream of consciousness style to be very distracting. This is not ... Read full review
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Contents
MATTER | 5 |
LAND Her Changing Face | 47 |
TIMBER What Was There for Them | 56 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | Woman and Nature: The Roaring Inside Her |
| Author | Susan Griffin |
| Publisher | Harper & Row, 1978 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 7 Mar 2008 |
| ISBN | 0060115114, 9780060115111 |
| Length | 263 pages |
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