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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... shape of the lion house ) or a circle ( the shape for a prison in which there may be constant surveillance from the center ) or such as the rectangular shape of a cell . Or the shape of a measuring rod . Time Divided The very words from ...
... shape of the lion house ) or a circle ( the shape for a prison in which there may be constant surveillance from the center ) or such as the rectangular shape of a cell . Or the shape of a measuring rod . Time Divided The very words from ...
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... shape of a cave , the bud , the chrysalis , the shell , what new form we seek in this darkness , our hands feeling these walls , here wet , here damp , here crumbling away ; our hands searching for signs in this rock , certain now in ...
... shape of a cave , the bud , the chrysalis , the shell , what new form we seek in this darkness , our hands feeling these walls , here wet , here damp , here crumbling away ; our hands searching for signs in this rock , certain now in ...
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... shape of this place tells the river where to go . We say he should have known his action would have consequences . We say our judgment was that when she raised that rifle , looking through the sight at him , and fired , she was acting ...
... shape of this place tells the river where to go . We say he should have known his action would have consequences . We say our judgment was that when she raised that rifle , looking through the sight at him , and fired , she was acting ...
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MATTER | 2 |
LAND Her Changing Face | 47 |
TIMBER What Was There for Them | 56 |
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