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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... live through every hour . We are counting the number he has killed , the number he has bound into servitude , the number he has maimed , stolen from , left to starve . We measure his virtue . We count the value of our lives . We are ...
... live through every hour . We are counting the number he has killed , the number he has bound into servitude , the number he has maimed , stolen from , left to starve . We measure his virtue . We count the value of our lives . We are ...
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... lives and loss , and violets , not last years , but having the Moth- er's eyes- EMILY DICKINSON , letter to Catherine Scott Turner , 1859 Sarah Butler Wister first met Jeannie Field Musgrove while vaca- tioning with her family at ...
... lives and loss , and violets , not last years , but having the Moth- er's eyes- EMILY DICKINSON , letter to Catherine Scott Turner , 1859 Sarah Butler Wister first met Jeannie Field Musgrove while vaca- tioning with her family at ...
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... lives in the soil . The light . The grass needing the soil . With roots deep in the earth . And patches of silver . Like the patches of silver in our hair . Worn by time . This bird flying low over the grass . Over the tules . The ...
... lives in the soil . The light . The grass needing the soil . With roots deep in the earth . And patches of silver . Like the patches of silver in our hair . Worn by time . This bird flying low over the grass . Over the tules . The ...
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MATTER | 2 |
LAND Her Changing Face | 47 |
TIMBER What Was There for Them | 56 |
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