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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... close together so they will grow straight and tall to reach the light . ( There should be one central stenographic pool to render service for the entire office instead of small groups of uncontrolled stenographers throughout the office ...
... close together so they will grow straight and tall to reach the light . ( There should be one central stenographic pool to render service for the entire office instead of small groups of uncontrolled stenographers throughout the office ...
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... close . Where the women keep themselves at a distance . Where the temptation to speak becomes large and the fear of speaking larger . Where all her words are dressed . And the mother teaches her daughter how to wear her hair . The room ...
... close . Where the women keep themselves at a distance . Where the temptation to speak becomes large and the fear of speaking larger . Where all her words are dressed . And the mother teaches her daughter how to wear her hair . The room ...
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... close to the sawmill , " see various forest management texts , for example , Managing the Small Forest ( U.S. Dept. of Agriculture ) or A. J. Panshin and E. S. Harrar and W. J. Baker and P. B. Proctor , Forest Products . For comments on ...
... close to the sawmill , " see various forest management texts , for example , Managing the Small Forest ( U.S. Dept. of Agriculture ) or A. J. Panshin and E. S. Harrar and W. J. Baker and P. B. Proctor , Forest Products . For comments on ...
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LAND Her Changing Face | 47 |
TIMBER What Was There for Them | 56 |
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