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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... earth—both as sustenance for humanity and victim of male ravage. The book is cultural anthropology, visionary prediction, literary indictment and personal claim.” —San Francisco Examiner & Chronicle “Griffin's work suggests that it is ...
... earth—both as sustenance for humanity and victim of male ravage. The book is cultural anthropology, visionary prediction, literary indictment and personal claim.” —San Francisco Examiner & Chronicle “Griffin's work suggests that it is ...
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... earth that I had retained only in my poetry. The connection between social injustice and the denigration of nature was one I had inherited too, from writers, who in dissecting racism had delineated the way that white prejudice imagines ...
... earth that I had retained only in my poetry. The connection between social injustice and the denigration of nature was one I had inherited too, from writers, who in dissecting racism had delineated the way that white prejudice imagines ...
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... earth was on my 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 ...
... earth was on my 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 ...
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... earth after a philosophy that not only limits but even erases nature. As logical as the arguments for controlling women and nature appear to be, they veil a profound illogic, a heated fear, indeed a terror, that serve as the engines for ...
... earth after a philosophy that not only limits but even erases nature. As logical as the arguments for controlling women and nature appear to be, they veil a profound illogic, a heated fear, indeed a terror, that serve as the engines for ...
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... earth, trees, cows, show horses and women's bodies as we all exist in patriarchy. The second book is entitled “Separation,” and beginning with the separation of a womb from a woman's body, lists and protests against all those ...
... earth, trees, cows, show horses and women's bodies as we all exist in patriarchy. The second book is entitled “Separation,” and beginning with the separation of a womb from a woman's body, lists and protests against all those ...
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