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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... told that a wolf circled the walls of the city . That he ate little children . That he ate women . That he lured us away from the city with his tricks . That he was a seducer and he feasted on the flesh of the foolish , and the blood of ...
... told that a wolf circled the walls of the city . That he ate little children . That he ate women . That he lured us away from the city with his tricks . That he was a seducer and he feasted on the flesh of the foolish , and the blood of ...
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... told in a story that he pursued her . That she fled from him . She fled into the water . She became a fish . He became a beaver . She leaped ashore . She became an otter , a pig , a fox , a mare , a lion . He became a lynx , a bear , a ...
... told in a story that he pursued her . That she fled from him . She fled into the water . She became a fish . He became a beaver . She leaped ashore . She became an otter , a pig , a fox , a mare , a lion . He became a lynx , a bear , a ...
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... told that Noah was chosen to hear the word of God . We were told that God said to Noah , " I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth . " That there was a flood . That it was unmerciful , and every living thing ...
... told that Noah was chosen to hear the word of God . We were told that God said to Noah , " I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth . " That there was a flood . That it was unmerciful , and every living thing ...
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MATTER | 2 |
LAND Her Changing Face | 47 |
TIMBER What Was There for Them | 56 |
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