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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... child raising or the discrimination we encountered where we worked prepared the way for stories about rape or abortion we had been too ashamed to share. Bit by bit, the lid was blown off our seeming complacence. On the bedrock of this ...
... child raising or the discrimination we encountered where we worked prepared the way for stories about rape or abortion we had been too ashamed to share. Bit by bit, the lid was blown off our seeming complacence. On the bedrock of this ...
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... child, in the still unsettled San Fernando Valley, gazing at a field of grass moving in the wind, falling in love with this dance that seemed to make sense of everything in the chaotic world of my childhood. In the end, all this has ...
... child, in the still unsettled San Fernando Valley, gazing at a field of grass moving in the wind, falling in love with this dance that seemed to make sense of everything in the chaotic world of my childhood. In the end, all this has ...
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... children—all that women know of naming feeling while we live in a culture that misnames and mistakes what we experience—goes into this book. In particular this book was generated in the midst of a time and space defined by the words and ...
... children—all that women know of naming feeling while we live in a culture that misnames and mistakes what we experience—goes into this book. In particular this book was generated in the midst of a time and space defined by the words and ...
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... children fear, and Burial wherein he buries himself in her HIS CERTAINTY (How He Rules the Universe) Quantity in which he calculates existence, and Probability in which he determines the future, and Gravity in which the laws of the ...
... children fear, and Burial wherein he buries himself in her HIS CERTAINTY (How He Rules the Universe) Quantity in which he calculates existence, and Probability in which he determines the future, and Gravity in which the laws of the ...
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... children.” That women are feebler of body and 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 ...
... children.” That women are feebler of body and 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 ...
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