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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... human beings, twenty years seems like a very short period of time. Yet the book was written in the midst of a crisis that has deepened in the intervening years. When life as we know it hangs in the balance, even the smallest moments in ...
... human beings, twenty years seems like a very short period of time. Yet the book was written in the midst of a crisis that has deepened in the intervening years. When life as we know it hangs in the balance, even the smallest moments in ...
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... human existence is immersed in nature, dependent on nature, inseparable from it. By imagining women as closer to nature, it becomes possible to imagine men as farther away from nature. And in this way, both men and women can indulge in ...
... human existence is immersed in nature, dependent on nature, inseparable from it. By imagining women as closer to nature, it becomes possible to imagine men as farther away from nature. And in this way, both men and women can indulge in ...
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... was how man moved through it , remote above the dwindled earth , the concealed human life . Vulnerable life , that could scar . TILLIE OLSEN , Tell Me a Riddle MATTER It is decided that matter is transitory and illusory.
... was how man moved through it , remote above the dwindled earth , the concealed human life . Vulnerable life , that could scar . TILLIE OLSEN , Tell Me a Riddle MATTER It is decided that matter is transitory and illusory.
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... human mind, it is written, was made by God to understand “not whatever you please, but quantity.” “For what is there in the human mind besides figures and magnitudes?” it is asked. And it is seen that the senses are deceptive. And the ...
... human mind, it is written, was made by God to understand “not whatever you please, but quantity.” “For what is there in the human mind besides figures and magnitudes?” it is asked. And it is seen that the senses are deceptive. And the ...
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... human mind understands some propositions in geometry and arithmetic but that in " these the Divine Wisdom knows infinitely more propositions because It knows them all . " That God has allowed us to see “ by creating us after His own ...
... human mind understands some propositions in geometry and arithmetic but that in " these the Divine Wisdom knows infinitely more propositions because It knows them all . " That God has allowed us to see “ by creating us after His own ...
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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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