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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... voice from its use of such phrases as " it is decided ” or “ the discovery was made . " Much research went into the reconstruction of this voice : I tried to preserve its style and tone accurately . The other voice in the book began as my ...
... voice from its use of such phrases as " it is decided ” or “ the discovery was made . " Much research went into the reconstruction of this voice : I tried to preserve its style and tone accurately . The other voice in the book began as my ...
Page 116
... voice . She hears his voice speaking . He tells her she is always defending herself . For no reason , his voice implies . She tells him that while he was away , she was sick and the baby cried . He tells her that she has told him this ...
... voice . She hears his voice speaking . He tells her she is always defending herself . For no reason , his voice implies . She tells him that while he was away , she was sick and the baby cried . He tells her that she has told him this ...
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... voice grand . He makes himself tall . He dresses in Their clothes . He imitates Their walk , Their gestures . A smile crosses one of Their faces . He believes he is pleasing Them ; he believes he has become one of Them ; They begin to ...
... voice grand . He makes himself tall . He dresses in Their clothes . He imitates Their walk , Their gestures . A smile crosses one of Their faces . He believes he is pleasing Them ; he believes he has become one of Them ; They begin to ...
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MATTER | 2 |
LAND Her Changing Face | 47 |
TIMBER What Was There for Them | 56 |
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