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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... created to act as the viceroy of the great God of heaven and earth , and that he should then name the brutes and the vegetables . For there is power in words , it is said , and it is put forward that by knowing the names of natural ...
... created to act as the viceroy of the great God of heaven and earth , and that he should then name the brutes and the vegetables . For there is power in words , it is said , and it is put forward that by knowing the names of natural ...
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... Creation , ” it is said . ( And it is sung that only slaves love women , for the love of women is dangerous , and to ... created for chewing , and that women " exist solely for the propagation of the race . " That nature has made it ...
... Creation , ” it is said . ( And it is sung that only slaves love women , for the love of women is dangerous , and to ... created for chewing , and that women " exist solely for the propagation of the race . " That nature has made it ...
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... created each of the myriad of creeping parasites and slimy worms which have swarmed . . . this globe . " ) That ... creation " and that animals are diverted from reaching perfection by the mutability of the world . ( And it is wondered ...
... created each of the myriad of creeping parasites and slimy worms which have swarmed . . . this globe . " ) That ... creation " and that animals are diverted from reaching perfection by the mutability of the world . ( And it is wondered ...
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MATTER | 2 |
LAND Her Changing Face | 47 |
TIMBER What Was There for Them | 56 |
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