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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... becomes radioactive . The pure radium burns itself away . Now this substance has entered her hands . Her skin is burned . There are open sores . The lenses of her eyes become opaque . She cannot see . She has pains in her arms . She is ...
... becomes radioactive . The pure radium burns itself away . Now this substance has entered her hands . Her skin is burned . There are open sores . The lenses of her eyes become opaque . She cannot see . She has pains in her arms . She is ...
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... become . This round cavern , motion turned back on itself , the follower be- comes the followed , moon in the sky , the edge becoming the center , what is buried emerges , light dying over the water , what is unearthed is stunning , the ...
... become . This round cavern , motion turned back on itself , the follower be- comes the followed , moon in the sky , the edge becoming the center , what is buried emerges , light dying over the water , what is unearthed is stunning , the ...
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... become as plain as the landscape around us . And the rhythms of our bodies , moving stead- ily through these drifts , have become slow . Hour after hour things appear to be the same . Yet the drifts grow deeper . This landscape seems to ...
... become as plain as the landscape around us . And the rhythms of our bodies , moving stead- ily through these drifts , have become slow . Hour after hour things appear to be the same . Yet the drifts grow deeper . This landscape seems to ...
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MATTER | 2 |
LAND Her Changing Face | 47 |
TIMBER What Was There for Them | 56 |
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