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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... Face) In which he shapes this earth to his use TIMBER (What Was There for Them) In which he makes the trees his own WIND In which he harnesses the elements COWS (The Way We Yield) In which he domesticates the animals MULES And the ...
... Face) In which he shapes this earth to his use TIMBER (What Was There for Them) In which he makes the trees his own WIND In which he harnesses the elements COWS (The Way We Yield) In which he domesticates the animals MULES And the ...
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... face is a burning wind, whose voice is a hissing serpent. It is decided that in birth the female provides the matter (the menstruum, the yolk) and that the male provides the form which is immaterial, and that out of this union is born ...
... face is a burning wind, whose voice is a hissing serpent. It is decided that in birth the female provides the matter (the menstruum, the yolk) and that the male provides the form which is immaterial, and that out of this union is born ...
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... face of the earth is a record of man's sin. That the height of mountains, the depth of valleys, the sites of great boulders, craters, seas, bodies of land, lakes and rivers, the shapes of rocks, cliffs, all were formed by the deluge ...
... face of the earth is a record of man's sin. That the height of mountains, the depth of valleys, the sites of great boulders, craters, seas, bodies of land, lakes and rivers, the shapes of rocks, cliffs, all were formed by the deluge ...
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... face of the earth even races nearly his equal.” Of the men who live in the gloom of the forest, it is whispered, one might as easily pass “for an Orang-Utang as a man.” (Hottentots are brutal, it is said, and their speech is a farrago ...
... face of the earth even races nearly his equal.” Of the men who live in the gloom of the forest, it is whispered, one might as easily pass “for an Orang-Utang as a man.” (Hottentots are brutal, it is said, and their speech is a farrago ...
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... face of the earth which did not crumble under the use of its perverted energies when the gospel reached it. Only lust creates semen, it is said, pure love never any. (“Prostitution,” it is sung, “moves in the bosom of the filthy city ...
... face of the earth which did not crumble under the use of its perverted energies when the gospel reached it. Only lust creates semen, it is said, pure love never any. (“Prostitution,” it is sung, “moves in the bosom of the filthy city ...
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