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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... mind twenty years ago. But I was more sanguine about it than I am now. The times were generally more hopeful then—not because the world was a better place but because the atmosphere was charged with vision. In 1974, as I began writing ...
... mind twenty years ago. But I was more sanguine about it than I am now. The times were generally more hopeful then—not because the world was a better place but because the atmosphere was charged with vision. In 1974, as I began writing ...
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... mind. The book is written in poetic prose, a style that allowed me to move underneath the seemingly logical propositions of our culture, not only to discover the machinery of our fear but to find evidence for a wisdom that is at once ...
... mind. The book is written in poetic prose, a style that allowed me to move underneath the seemingly logical propositions of our culture, not only to discover the machinery of our fear but to find evidence for a wisdom that is at once ...
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... mind from emotion , body from soul - and reveals that separation which patriarchy requires us to make from ourselves . The third book , called “ Passage , ” finally separates our consciousness from the consciousness of patriarchy , and ...
... mind from emotion , body from soul - and reveals that separation which patriarchy requires us to make from ourselves . The third book , called “ Passage , ” finally separates our consciousness from the consciousness of patriarchy , and ...
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... mind than men, it is said: “Frailty, thy name is woman.” And it is stated that “the word woman is used to mean the lust of the flesh.” That men are moved to carnal lust when they hear or see woman, whose face is a burning wind, whose ...
... mind than men, it is said: “Frailty, thy name is woman.” And it is stated that “the word woman is used to mean the lust of the flesh.” That men are moved to carnal lust when they hear or see woman, whose face is a burning wind, whose ...
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... Mind , the Ruler of the Universe ; Hermes Trismegistus names him the visible God , Sophocles ' Electra calls him the All - Seeing . So the Sun sits as upon a royal throne ruling his children the planets which circle round him ...
... Mind , the Ruler of the Universe ; Hermes Trismegistus names him the visible God , Sophocles ' Electra calls him the All - Seeing . So the Sun sits as upon a royal throne ruling his children the planets which circle round him ...
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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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