Woman and Nature: The Roaring Inside Her"Women 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 us both ... Griffin has collected here the most apparently disparate materials (lumbering manuals, gynecology texts, the pronouncements of early theologians, annals of American exploration, office manuals, poetry, the dreams of the scientists, etc.) 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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... institutions , no politics , no government , where my sex and I have not been dominated , subdued and robbed of our potential and talents as we are excluded from patriarchal privilege . What then does it mean for a woman to be loyal in ...
... institutions , no politics , no government , where my sex and I have not been dominated , subdued and robbed of our potential and talents as we are excluded from patriarchal privilege . What then does it mean for a woman to be loyal in ...
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... Institution for Women ) or two miles south of Napa ( is Napa State Hospital for the mentally ill ) . Space . The Acre . For example , 500,000 acres ( of the Ozarks have been sprayed with herbicide ) or 936 acres ( comprise the central ...
... Institution for Women ) or two miles south of Napa ( is Napa State Hospital for the mentally ill ) . Space . The Acre . For example , 500,000 acres ( of the Ozarks have been sprayed with herbicide ) or 936 acres ( comprise the central ...
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... Institution Design and Construction . Washington , D.C. U.S. Bureau of Prisons , 1949 . Harris , Ann Sutherland ;, and Nochlin , Linda . Women Artists : 1550-1950 . New York : Alfred A. Knopf , 1976 . Harrison , Jane Ellen . Mythology ...
... Institution Design and Construction . Washington , D.C. U.S. Bureau of Prisons , 1949 . Harris , Ann Sutherland ;, and Nochlin , Linda . Women Artists : 1550-1950 . New York : Alfred A. Knopf , 1976 . Harrison , Jane Ellen . Mythology ...
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MATTER | 2 |
LAND Her Changing Face | 47 |
TIMBER What Was There for Them | 56 |
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