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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Page 90
... touch ourselves . We place our hands over our vulvas . We search . To put the clitoris out of reach , the lips of the vagina are sewn together . We cannot swear that we are virgins . A hymen is sewn into place . Our vulvas are too ...
... touch ourselves . We place our hands over our vulvas . We search . To put the clitoris out of reach , the lips of the vagina are sewn together . We cannot swear that we are virgins . A hymen is sewn into place . Our vulvas are too ...
Page 156
... touching . The room of the dressing where the women are afraid to touch . Where the women are not close . Where the women keep themselves at a distance . Where the temptation to speak becomes large and the fear of speaking larger ...
... touching . The room of the dressing where the women are afraid to touch . Where the women are not close . Where the women keep themselves at a distance . Where the temptation to speak becomes large and the fear of speaking larger ...
Page 157
... touch . This room of our touching where the mother teaches her daughter to face her secret feelings . The labyrinth of her knowledge THE LABYRINTH 157.
... touch . This room of our touching where the mother teaches her daughter to face her secret feelings . The labyrinth of her knowledge THE LABYRINTH 157.
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MATTER | 2 |
LAND Her Changing Face | 47 |
TIMBER What Was There for Them | 56 |
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