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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... discovered of light that the sines of the angles of refraction and incidence bear a true ratio and it is argued " was the eye contrived without skill in optics ? " And it is discovered that the heart circulates the blood through the ...
... discovered of light that the sines of the angles of refraction and incidence bear a true ratio and it is argued " was the eye contrived without skill in optics ? " And it is discovered that the heart circulates the blood through the ...
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... discovered , the lambda , the sigma , the eta , the muon , pion , cascade , kaon , are discovered . Thirty kinds of elementary particles are discovered . It is suggested that the elementary particles may not be fundamental . Man's ...
... discovered , the lambda , the sigma , the eta , the muon , pion , cascade , kaon , are discovered . Thirty kinds of elementary particles are discovered . It is suggested that the elementary particles may not be fundamental . Man's ...
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... discovered America . As when Cabot discovered America . As when Americus Vespucius discovered America . ( As when Balboa discovered the South Sea , Cortez discovered Vera Cruz , De Soto discovered the Mississippi River , Hudson discov ...
... discovered America . As when Cabot discovered America . As when Americus Vespucius discovered America . ( As when Balboa discovered the South Sea , Cortez discovered Vera Cruz , De Soto discovered the Mississippi River , Hudson discov ...
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MATTER | 2 |
LAND Her Changing Face | 47 |
TIMBER What Was There for Them | 56 |
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