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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... less complex nervous system . Our voices diminish ( That the later development of the abbreviated foot in women must have been a throwback , since the short foot is clearly " unworthy of a noble animal . " ) We become less And it is ...
... less complex nervous system . Our voices diminish ( That the later development of the abbreviated foot in women must have been a throwback , since the short foot is clearly " unworthy of a noble animal . " ) We become less And it is ...
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... less libido , it is said , their animal instincts are less subject to control ; they have less superego also . That women also have less ego , that ( like children and primitive peoples ) they are less aware of the necessities of life ...
... less libido , it is said , their animal instincts are less subject to control ; they have less superego also . That women also have less ego , that ( like children and primitive peoples ) they are less aware of the necessities of life ...
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... less ego : This formulation in language is my parody of Freud's view of the feminine . ( Always less . ) See " Femininity , " passim , for his de- scription of the female ego as being formed essentially from a sense of mutilation . See ...
... less ego : This formulation in language is my parody of Freud's view of the feminine . ( Always less . ) See " Femininity , " passim , for his de- scription of the female ego as being formed essentially from a sense of mutilation . See ...
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MATTER | 2 |
LAND Her Changing Face | 47 |
TIMBER What Was There for Them | 56 |
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