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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... rider holds the center of the bridle in front of the horse's face and above her head so that the bit is in front of the horse's mouth . The right hand is placed under the horse's jaw . If the horse does not open her mouth when the bit ...
... rider holds the center of the bridle in front of the horse's face and above her head so that the bit is in front of the horse's mouth . The right hand is placed under the horse's jaw . If the horse does not open her mouth when the bit ...
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... rider or train for long hours . These may be eliminated partially by gymnastic training . Another difficulty is the ... rider offers her a lump of sugar . The collaboration of horse and rider is essential to performance . When it is ...
... rider or train for long hours . These may be eliminated partially by gymnastic training . Another difficulty is the ... rider offers her a lump of sugar . The collaboration of horse and rider is essential to performance . When it is ...
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... rider to his horse . SIGMUND FREUD , " The Dissection of the Psychical Personality " The onlooker should have the impression that two creatures are fused together , one thinking , the other executing the thoughts . ALOIS PODHAJSKY , The ...
... rider to his horse . SIGMUND FREUD , " The Dissection of the Psychical Personality " The onlooker should have the impression that two creatures are fused together , one thinking , the other executing the thoughts . ALOIS PODHAJSKY , The ...
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MATTER | 2 |
LAND Her Changing Face | 47 |
TIMBER What Was There for Them | 56 |
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