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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The Roaring Inside Her Susan Griffin. ( What we feel in this darkness that seems like stillness to us . ) And what made us feel that every day was like another ? Why did we no longer bother to draw back the curtains ? No longer bother to ...
The Roaring Inside Her Susan Griffin. ( What we feel in this darkness that seems like stillness to us . ) And what made us feel that every day was like another ? Why did we no longer bother to draw back the curtains ? No longer bother to ...
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... feel sorry for their plight . They told her how it was hard for them to cry . How dominance had been expected of them . They said that they knew no other life than the one that they were taught . That hence they were not responsible for ...
... feel sorry for their plight . They told her how it was hard for them to cry . How dominance had been expected of them . They said that they knew no other life than the one that they were taught . That hence they were not responsible for ...
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... feel the necessity of these acts in us . We will pass this feeling to our young , to those who follow in our footsteps , who walk under our bodies , who feel safe in our presence , who did we not warn them , did we not teach them this ...
... feel the necessity of these acts in us . We will pass this feeling to our young , to those who follow in our footsteps , who walk under our bodies , who feel safe in our presence , who did we not warn them , did we not teach them this ...
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MATTER | 2 |
LAND Her Changing Face | 47 |
TIMBER What Was There for Them | 56 |
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