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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... Once we could not have answered . Only a few short years ago we knew that we sat on a world that would birth and death us , find and forget us . But now this host of once lost children grown up to be saved adults , gives answer . Mars ...
... Once we could not have answered . Only a few short years ago we knew that we sat on a world that would birth and death us , find and forget us . But now this host of once lost children grown up to be saved adults , gives answer . Mars ...
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... once something called beauty we were part of . It is this we remem- ber when we bellow . When we stand still and gaze at you . Our noses were wet , we know that , we know we once nuzzled you as you pulled with your hands on us , as the ...
... once something called beauty we were part of . It is this we remem- ber when we bellow . When we stand still and gaze at you . Our noses were wet , we know that , we know we once nuzzled you as you pulled with your hands on us , as the ...
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... Once a suitor was approved , the lucky man was permitted to possess the boy by rape . FLORENCE RUSH , " Greek Love : The Sexual Abuse of Male Children " See how all men were women once when they were small . MARTHA KING , Women and ...
... Once a suitor was approved , the lucky man was permitted to possess the boy by rape . FLORENCE RUSH , " Greek Love : The Sexual Abuse of Male Children " See how all men were women once when they were small . MARTHA KING , Women and ...
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MATTER | 2 |
LAND Her Changing Face | 47 |
TIMBER What Was There for Them | 56 |
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