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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... possible kinds of germ cells , and two such sets will give a possible number of combinations which is vastly greater :) He sees her swelling . She is growing bigger . What is beginning in her he does not know . What will come out of her ...
... possible kinds of germ cells , and two such sets will give a possible number of combinations which is vastly greater :) He sees her swelling . She is growing bigger . What is beginning in her he does not know . What will come out of her ...
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... possible . In our fleshless bodies we felt our hearts drop infinitely . To see what we had given up . In our terror . In our desire to speed as fast as possible . To be away from the terrifying roar , the blinding light , the cataclysm ...
... possible . In our fleshless bodies we felt our hearts drop infinitely . To see what we had given up . In our terror . In our desire to speed as fast as possible . To be away from the terrifying roar , the blinding light , the cataclysm ...
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... possible . See Bernard de Voto in his Introduction to The Journals of Lewis and Clark : " ... it satisfied desire and it created desire : the desire of the westering nation . " The Struggle : See Francis Parkman , The Oregon Trail . The ...
... possible . See Bernard de Voto in his Introduction to The Journals of Lewis and Clark : " ... it satisfied desire and it created desire : the desire of the westering nation . " The Struggle : See Francis Parkman , The Oregon Trail . The ...
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MATTER | 2 |
LAND Her Changing Face | 47 |
TIMBER What Was There for Them | 56 |
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