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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... womb of nature " are " many secrets of excellent use . " And it is written that " it is annoying and impossible to suffer proud women , because in general Nature has given men proud and high spirits , while it has made women humble in ...
... womb of nature " are " many secrets of excellent use . " And it is written that " it is annoying and impossible to suffer proud women , because in general Nature has given men proud and high spirits , while it has made women humble in ...
Page 90
... Womb There were the gresillons , which crushed the tips of fingers and toes in a vise ; the echelle or " ladder , " a kind of rack which vio- lently stretched the body ; . . . the tortillon , which squeezed its tender parts at the same ...
... Womb There were the gresillons , which crushed the tips of fingers and toes in a vise ; the echelle or " ladder , " a kind of rack which vio- lently stretched the body ; . . . the tortillon , which squeezed its tender parts at the same ...
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... womb , these shreds of crim- son life , this child that is not there . It is at her first abortion that woman begins to " know . " SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR , The Second Sex Her sister swore that she witnessed every operation . She testified ...
... womb , these shreds of crim- son life , this child that is not there . It is at her first abortion that woman begins to " know . " SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR , The Second Sex Her sister swore that she witnessed every operation . She testified ...
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MATTER | 2 |
LAND Her Changing Face | 47 |
TIMBER What Was There for Them | 56 |
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