Woman and Nature: The Roaring Inside HerCatapult, 22 août 2016 - 300 pages In this famously provocative cornerstone of feminist literature, Susan Griffin explores the identification of women with the earth—both as sustenance for humanity and as victim of male rage. Starting from Plato's fateful division of the world into spirit and matter, her analysis of how patriarchal Western philosophy and religion have used language and science to bolster their power over both women and nature is brilliant and persuasive, coming alive in poetic prose. Griffin draws on an astonishing range of sources—from timbering manuals to medical texts to Scripture and classical literature—in showing how destructive has been the impulse to disembody the human soul, and how the long separated might once more be rejoined. Poet Adrienne Rich calls Woman and Nature "perhaps the most extraordinary nonfiction work to have merged from the matrix of contemporary female consciousness—a fusion of patriarchal science, ecology, female history and feminism, written by a poet who has created a new form for her vision. ...The book has the impact of a great film or a fresco; yet it is intimately personal, touching to the quick of woman's experience." |
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... called voiceless or mute, even the earthworms, even the shellfish and the sponges, for those of us who speak our own language, and this book is dedicated in love to Adrienne Rich for her friendship and for her words PREFACE TO THE THIRD ...
... called voiceless or mute, even the earthworms, even the shellfish and the sponges, for those of us who speak our own language, and this book is dedicated in love to Adrienne Rich for her friendship and for her words PREFACE TO THE THIRD ...
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... called, including the formidable Sylvia McLaughlin, and her friends Kay Kerr, the wife of the Dean of the University of California at Berkeley, and faculty wife Esther Gulick who together managed to save San Francisco Bay from turning ...
... called, including the formidable Sylvia McLaughlin, and her friends Kay Kerr, the wife of the Dean of the University of California at Berkeley, and faculty wife Esther Gulick who together managed to save San Francisco Bay from turning ...
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... called Loba, and the Diggers who mixed visions of economic equality with the understanding that even our thoughts are shaped by the watersheds in which we dwell. And, particularly important to me in the mix, there was Jerome ...
... called Loba, and the Diggers who mixed visions of economic equality with the understanding that even our thoughts are shaped by the watersheds in which we dwell. And, particularly important to me in the mix, there was Jerome ...
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... called “Plutonium.” “We hear there is a substance and it is called Plutonium.” I recall very clearly one night when I woke in a cold sweat, worried that I had created an unsolvable problem for myself by writing in two voices, until ...
... called “Plutonium.” “We hear there is a substance and it is called Plutonium.” I recall very clearly one night when I woke in a cold sweat, worried that I had created an unsolvable problem for myself by writing in two voices, until ...
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... called, tellingly, “A Pathetic Fallacy.” I had been a good student, learning the terminology and absorbing the attitude. Yet as a poet, through metaphors and music, I retained that forbidden state of mind. In the end, I was to reclaim ...
... called, tellingly, “A Pathetic Fallacy.” I had been a good student, learning the terminology and absorbing the attitude. Yet as a poet, through metaphors and music, I retained that forbidden state of mind. In the end, I was to reclaim ...
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