Woman and Nature: The Roaring Inside HerWomen and nature is about memory and mutilation, female anger as power, female presence as transforming force. It embraces ritual and science, history and imagination, calling up the voices and body of our earth and restoring us to knowledge of her beauty and our own. In one of the infinite false polarities of patriarchy, both the exploiter-rapists and the sexist ecology movement have lumped women and nature together in a view negative for both of us ... Griffin has collected here the most apparently disparate materials ... into an extraordinary collage which, for all the research and hard intellectual work underlying it, becomes an intense physical experience.--Back cover. |
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... beauty so that she might attract a male , but that this beauty vanishes after she has bred one or two children , just as the ant loses her wings after fertilization . And it is warned that men do not like and would not seek to mate with ...
... beauty so that she might attract a male , but that this beauty vanishes after she has bred one or two children , just as the ant loses her wings after fertilization . And it is warned that men do not like and would not seek to mate with ...
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... beauty of youth . DR . ROBERT ALYN FRANKLYN , Beauty Surgeon no one ever speaks of " a beautiful old woman " . . . SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR , The Coming of Age Our faces begin to die . We are full of defect . Our brows , for instance , are ...
... beauty of youth . DR . ROBERT ALYN FRANKLYN , Beauty Surgeon no one ever speaks of " a beautiful old woman " . . . SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR , The Coming of Age Our faces begin to die . We are full of defect . Our brows , for instance , are ...
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... beauty . But does not charity ask that the mother prefer the life of her unborn infant over her own life ? they asked . But " beauty , " they argued , is only a relative term , and beauty , they said , has been said to exist only in the ...
... beauty . But does not charity ask that the mother prefer the life of her unborn infant over her own life ? they asked . But " beauty , " they argued , is only a relative term , and beauty , they said , has been said to exist only in the ...
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MATTER | 2 |
LAND Her Changing Face | 47 |
TIMBER What Was There for Them | 56 |
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