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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... light- seconds . From the earth to the sun , eight light - minutes . The diameter of the whole solar system , he says , is not quite one half of a light- day . This is closeness , he says , this is intimacy . Distance , he says , is ...
... light- seconds . From the earth to the sun , eight light - minutes . The diameter of the whole solar system , he says , is not quite one half of a light- day . This is closeness , he says , this is intimacy . Distance , he says , is ...
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... light - years in diameter , are 160,000 light - years away . There may be , he suggests , nearly 1,000 , - 000,000 galaxies in this universe . And he tells her how all this began indifferently to her . He suggests there was an explosion ...
... light - years in diameter , are 160,000 light - years away . There may be , he suggests , nearly 1,000 , - 000,000 galaxies in this universe . And he tells her how all this began indifferently to her . He suggests there was an explosion ...
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... light , filled with light , with light , shuddering , you make me shudder , you make the movement of the earth come into me , you fill me , you fill me with sound , is that my voice crying out ? The sunlight in you is making my breath ...
... light , filled with light , with light , shuddering , you make me shudder , you make the movement of the earth come into me , you fill me , you fill me with sound , is that my voice crying out ? The sunlight in you is making my breath ...
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LAND Her Changing Face | 47 |
TIMBER What Was There for Them | 56 |
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