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 67
She stands in the midst of her own soft flesh , her thighs great wide arches ,
round columns , her hips wide enough for calving , sturdy , rounded , swaying ,
stupefied mass , a cradle , a waving field of nipples , her udder brushing the
grass , a ...
She stands in the midst of her own soft flesh , her thighs great wide arches ,
round columns , her hips wide enough for calving , sturdy , rounded , swaying ,
stupefied mass , a cradle , a waving field of nipples , her udder brushing the
grass , a ...
Page 95
Spirit from flesh . We were told that if a woman have an issue and that issue in
her flesh be blood , she shall be impure for seven days . The impure from the
pure . The defiled from the holy . And whoever touches her , we heard , was also
...
Spirit from flesh . We were told that if a woman have an issue and that issue in
her flesh be blood , she shall be impure for seven days . The impure from the
pure . The defiled from the holy . And whoever touches her , we heard , was also
...
Page 96
is severed from a corpse , this too conveys uncleanness , even an olive pit ' s bulk
of flesh . That if marrow is left in a bone there is uncleanness . And of the place
where we gathered to weep near the graveyard , we heard that planting and ...
is severed from a corpse , this too conveys uncleanness , even an olive pit ' s bulk
of flesh . That if marrow is left in a bone there is uncleanness . And of the place
where we gathered to weep near the graveyard , we heard that planting and ...
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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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