Woman and Nature: The Roaring Inside HerA seminal work of the eco-feminist movement, connecting patriarchal society’s mistreatment of women with its disregard for the Earth’s ecological well-being Woman and Nature draws from a vast and enthralling array of literary, scientific, and philosophical texts in order to explore the relationship between the denigration of women and the disregard for the Earth. In this singular work of love, passion, rage, and beauty, Susan Griffin ingeniously blends history, feminist philosophy, and environmental concerns, employing her acclaimed poetic sensibilities to question the mores of Western society. Griffin touches upon subjects as diverse as witch hunts, strip mining, Freudian psychology, and the suppression of sexuality to decry a long-standing history of misogyny and environmental abuse. A sometimes aggravating, often inspiring, and always insightful literary collage, this remarkable volume offers sanity, poetry, intelligence, and illumination. |
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... girls spoke with animals.) We are the bird's eggs. Bird's eggs, flowers, butterflies, rabbits, cows, sheep; we are caterpillars; we are leaves of ivy and sprigs of wallflower. We are women. We rise from the wave. We are gazelle and doe ...
... girls spoke with animals.) We are the bird's eggs. Bird's eggs, flowers, butterflies, rabbits, cows, sheep; we are caterpillars; we are leaves of ivy and sprigs of wallflower. We are women. We rise from the wave. We are gazelle and doe ...
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... girls should not be taught Italian and Spanish , since books written in both those languages have a " dangerous effect " on women . And it is cautioned that husbands should not counsel with their wives nor allow them to see their ...
... girls should not be taught Italian and Spanish , since books written in both those languages have a " dangerous effect " on women . And it is cautioned that husbands should not counsel with their wives nor allow them to see their ...
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... girls complete their education by the age of sixteen or seventeen and then marry. Higher education, it is said, will render a defective development of the sexual organs. (And it is suggested that higher education had already caused the ...
... girls complete their education by the age of sixteen or seventeen and then marry. Higher education, it is said, will render a defective development of the sexual organs. (And it is suggested that higher education had already caused the ...
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... girls should emphasize culture in their educations , it is suggested . ) And it is said that nature endows woman with a superabundant beauty so that she might attract a male , but that this beauty vanishes after she has bred one or two ...
... girls should emphasize culture in their educations , it is suggested . ) And it is said that nature endows woman with a superabundant beauty so that she might attract a male , but that this beauty vanishes after she has bred one or two ...
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In which he makes the trees his | |
And the domesticated speak | |
The separations in his vision and under his rule wherein our voice rises | |
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