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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... created an atmosphere in which a book such as this could come to be. So often in meetings or during protests, I have heard passionate exhortations to abandon talk for action. And at the same time in some academic circles, political ...
... created an atmosphere in which a book such as this could come to be. So often in meetings or during protests, I have heard passionate exhortations to abandon talk for action. And at the same time in some academic circles, political ...
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... , worried that I had created an unsolvable problem for myself by writing in two voices, until, after falling asleep and waking again, I realized that the conflict between these two perspectives would give the book a dramatic narrative.
... , worried that I had created an unsolvable problem for myself by writing in two voices, until, after falling asleep and waking again, I realized that the conflict between these two perspectives would give the book a dramatic narrative.
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... created within it began to be real for me; passing over into work on “Her Vision,” I would feel as if I had entered a free zone, and breathe a sigh of relief. I hope the reader will enter these spaces as I entered them, moving through ...
... created within it began to be real for me; passing over into work on “Her Vision,” I would feel as if I had entered a free zone, and breathe a sigh of relief. I hope the reader will enter these spaces as I entered them, moving through ...
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... created by God: that all other movement proceeds from violent contact with other moving matter, which was first ... created in man by God and it is eternal. The soul existed before the body and will live after it. “And I do not know how ...
... created by God: that all other movement proceeds from violent contact with other moving matter, which was first ... created in man by God and it is eternal. The soul existed before the body and will live after it. “And I do not know how ...
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... creation. That the space above is infinite, indivisible, immutable, and is the immensity of God. That the earth is a central sphere surrounded by concentric zones, perfect circles of air, ether and fire, containing the stars, the sun ...
... creation. That the space above is infinite, indivisible, immutable, and is the immensity of God. That the earth is a central sphere surrounded by concentric zones, perfect circles of air, ether and fire, containing the stars, the sun ...
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