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 78
( So that she does not have the naked look of a fresh cut , this is done before the
show . ) The scissors move against the fur , leaving only her mane , her tail and a
saddle mark . ( The groom places a saddle on her back and clips around it so that
...
( So that she does not have the naked look of a fresh cut , this is done before the
show . ) The scissors move against the fur , leaving only her mane , her tail and a
saddle mark . ( The groom places a saddle on her back and clips around it so that
...
Page 111
The child looks as if she might have cried but is not crying . Her eyes look down
intently to the ground . Her hands grip the wire of a barbed - wire fence . Maybe
she has just tried to say what she felt . Maybe the language did not come to her ...
The child looks as if she might have cried but is not crying . Her eyes look down
intently to the ground . Her hands grip the wire of a barbed - wire fence . Maybe
she has just tried to say what she felt . Maybe the language did not come to her ...
Page 156
The room of the dressing where the women tell each other they are happy and in
which the women look for secret unhappiness . This room where the women
gossip . Where she carefully dresses all her words . And the mother teaches the ...
The room of the dressing where the women tell each other they are happy and in
which the women look for secret unhappiness . This room where the women
gossip . Where she carefully dresses all her words . And the mother teaches the ...
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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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