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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... pain not real. Nor nightmares. Nor chamber music. And of the difference of women from men it is said that women are more sensual than they. It is said that women exist for pleasure. “How fair and pleasant art thou, O love, for thy ...
... pain not real. Nor nightmares. Nor chamber music. And of the difference of women from men it is said that women are more sensual than they. It is said that women exist for pleasure. “How fair and pleasant art thou, O love, for thy ...
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... pain . ) ( She confesses that after having intercourse with the devil she married her daughter to him . ) Newton procures " a triangular glass prism to try the celebrated phenomena of colors . " Newton publishes Opticks . Halley reveals ...
... pain . ) ( She confesses that after having intercourse with the devil she married her daughter to him . ) Newton procures " a triangular glass prism to try the celebrated phenomena of colors . " Newton publishes Opticks . Halley reveals ...
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... pain mitigated , and one body transformed to another , new species created , new instruments of destruction , such as poisons , invented , the time of germination accelerated , composts for the earth fabricated , new foods fabricated ...
... pain mitigated , and one body transformed to another , new species created , new instruments of destruction , such as poisons , invented , the time of germination accelerated , composts for the earth fabricated , new foods fabricated ...
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... pain to sharpen her pleasure . That she stabs , poisons , crushes and corrodes . That nature is weary of life . That her eyes are sick of seeing , her ears heavy with hearing . That she is burned up with creation . That she labors in ...
... pain to sharpen her pleasure . That she stabs , poisons , crushes and corrodes . That nature is weary of life . That her eyes are sick of seeing , her ears heavy with hearing . That she is burned up with creation . That she labors in ...
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... pain in women, that their incapacity for intellectual thought is a secondary sexual characteristic. (That the female organism transmits instincts, habits and intuition, and those features of the species established by heredity, to her ...
... pain in women, that their incapacity for intellectual thought is a secondary sexual characteristic. (That the female organism transmits instincts, habits and intuition, and those features of the species established by heredity, to her ...
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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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