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 47
LAND HER CHANGING FACE Territory I saw everything as no man had ever
seen before . . . . I felt like an explorer in medicine who first views a new and
important territory . MARION SIMS , M . D . ( on the invention of the speculum )
Consider ...
LAND HER CHANGING FACE Territory I saw everything as no man had ever
seen before . . . . I felt like an explorer in medicine who first views a new and
important territory . MARION SIMS , M . D . ( on the invention of the speculum )
Consider ...
Page 86
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR , The Coming of Age Our faces begin to die . We are full
of defect . Our brows , for instance , are lined . ( For transverse wrinkles of the
forehead , the skin above the frontal hair line is excised and the lines are
eliminated ...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR , The Coming of Age Our faces begin to die . We are full
of defect . Our brows , for instance , are lined . ( For transverse wrinkles of the
forehead , the skin above the frontal hair line is excised and the lines are
eliminated ...
Page 121
He searches Their faces for a sign . He is always watching Them , Their ... A
smile crosses one of Their faces . He believes he is pleasing Them ; he ... face is
covered with snot and They are carrying him up the stairs . And he sits alone in
the ...
He searches Their faces for a sign . He is always watching Them , Their ... A
smile crosses one of Their faces . He believes he is pleasing Them ; he ... face is
covered with snot and They are carrying him up the stairs . And he sits alone in
the ...
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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 |
| 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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