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 7
It is decided that geometrical optics holds the key to all understanding . It is said
that the ... The good angels , ” it is said , “ hold cheap all the knowledge of
material and temporal matters which inflates the demon with pride . ” And the
demon ...
It is decided that geometrical optics holds the key to all understanding . It is said
that the ... The good angels , ” it is said , “ hold cheap all the knowledge of
material and temporal matters which inflates the demon with pride . ” And the
demon ...
Page 121
And he sits alone in the darkness , until They come back to comfort him . The
anger run out of his body now , he lets Them hold him , lets Them rock him to
sleep , he feeling good now , feeling soft in Their arms , except that he holds on to
Them ...
And he sits alone in the darkness , until They come back to comfort him . The
anger run out of his body now , he lets Them hold him , lets Them rock him to
sleep , he feeling good now , feeling soft in Their arms , except that he holds on to
Them ...
Page 180
And we hold nothing back from her . We blurt out all we can remember . What we
forget , or don ' t know , she tells us . Then , with the whole story given to us , we
can usually figure things out . As for what will happen to us , that she does not ...
And we hold nothing back from her . We blurt out all we can remember . What we
forget , or don ' t know , she tells us . Then , with the whole story given to us , we
can usually figure things out . As for what will happen to us , that she does not ...
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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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