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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Page 113
... knew his habits . Now as the bird circled his nest , the artist knew he would light there and remain . He had planned this event . He had disturbed the nest of this eagle since he knew then that the bird would stay there , surveying the ...
... knew his habits . Now as the bird circled his nest , the artist knew he would light there and remain . He had planned this event . He had disturbed the nest of this eagle since he knew then that the bird would stay there , surveying the ...
Page 147
... knew Systema Naturae , and after all this , in his last years , he forgot even his own name . Nightmares We dreamed we were the daughters of evil . But you are mistaken , we cried , there has been some mistake . And we cried to be ...
... knew Systema Naturae , and after all this , in his last years , he forgot even his own name . Nightmares We dreamed we were the daughters of evil . But you are mistaken , we cried , there has been some mistake . And we cried to be ...
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... knew the length of caring . The weight . We felt children come to life in our bodies ; even if we had no children we knew what the necessities were . The pull . Our hands made decisions we knew had to be made The motion . when there was ...
... knew the length of caring . The weight . We felt children come to life in our bodies ; even if we had no children we knew what the necessities were . The pull . Our hands made decisions we knew had to be made The motion . when there was ...
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MATTER | 2 |
LAND Her Changing Face | 47 |
TIMBER What Was There for Them | 56 |
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