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 51
And beyond this sea , now finally , in an awakened state , he knows will simply be
another land , begging entrance , so that he might submerge himself in her
darkness , to find what secrets ? Only this silence again . To himself quietly he
admits ...
And beyond this sea , now finally , in an awakened state , he knows will simply be
another land , begging entrance , so that he might submerge himself in her
darkness , to find what secrets ? Only this silence again . To himself quietly he
admits ...
Page 134
Fractures live in the air , invisible fractures come into his body , split his
chromosomes , unravel the secrets of life in him . This secret life in us . The seen
and the unseen . The speaking and the unspoken . The one who is what she
ought to be ...
Fractures live in the air , invisible fractures come into his body , split his
chromosomes , unravel the secrets of life in him . This secret life in us . The seen
and the unseen . The speaking and the unspoken . The one who is what she
ought to be ...
Page 207
... stayed on her feet becomes clear , how she has learned to keep secrets ,
learned to keep going , to preserve what was ... how she denied sorrow , her
body living its secret life , her body sheltering wounds , her body sequestering
scars , her ...
... stayed on her feet becomes clear , how she has learned to keep secrets ,
learned to keep going , to preserve what was ... how she denied sorrow , her
body living its secret life , her body sheltering wounds , her body sequestering
scars , her ...
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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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