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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... Fall . That before the Fall there was immortal bliss on earth , but that after the Fall " all things decay in time and to their end do draw . " That the face of the earth is a record of man's sin . That the height of mountains , the ...
... Fall . That before the Fall there was immortal bliss on earth , but that after the Fall " all things decay in time and to their end do draw . " That the face of the earth is a record of man's sin . That the height of mountains , the ...
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... falls in a gravitational field . But the scientists do not know of any gravity . Their world is confined to the space inside ... fall at the same rate of acceler- ation , all bodies in the elevator move uniformly , at rest or in motion ...
... falls in a gravitational field . But the scientists do not know of any gravity . Their world is confined to the space inside ... fall at the same rate of acceler- ation , all bodies in the elevator move uniformly , at rest or in motion ...
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... falls asleep , dreams of a violent noise , and awakens again , seeing fiery sparks about the room . Thinking about the ... fall asleep again . Now he dreams of finding a book on the table . Not knowing who put it there , he opens it and ...
... falls asleep , dreams of a violent noise , and awakens again , seeing fiery sparks about the room . Thinking about the ... fall asleep again . Now he dreams of finding a book on the table . Not knowing who put it there , he opens it and ...
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LAND Her Changing Face | 47 |
TIMBER What Was There for Them | 56 |
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