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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... Fire” “For those inured to a steady diet of mainstream psychology, Susan Griffin's book will probably seem unpalatable. The ingredients will seem unfamiliar and their processing will seem incomplete. But for radical feminists and for ...
... Fire” “For those inured to a steady diet of mainstream psychology, Susan Griffin's book will probably seem unpalatable. The ingredients will seem unfamiliar and their processing will seem incomplete. But for radical feminists and for ...
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... Fire Next Time by James Baldwin stretched the mind in one direction while Love's Body by Norman O. Brown or The Politics of Experience by R. D. Laing in another. The mix of ideas and action was potent. As James Baldwin's elegant ...
... Fire Next Time by James Baldwin stretched the mind in one direction while Love's Body by Norman O. Brown or The Politics of Experience by R. D. Laing in another. The mix of ideas and action was potent. As James Baldwin's elegant ...
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... 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 and the planets, all kept in motion by the winds of heaven. That heaven is.
... 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 and the planets, all kept in motion by the winds of heaven. That heaven is.
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... fire and that Hell is within the sphere of the earth. That Hell is beneath our feet. It is stated that all bodies have a natural place, the heavy bodies tending toward the earth, the lighter toward the heavens. And what is sublunary is ...
... fire and that Hell is within the sphere of the earth. That Hell is beneath our feet. It is stated that all bodies have a natural place, the heavy bodies tending toward the earth, the lighter toward the heavens. And what is sublunary is ...
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... a mathematical law of dynamics universally valid for all changes in velocity. Joan of Arc, aged 22, “placed high on the fire so the flames would reach her slowly,” dies. 1431 (She is asked why she wears male costume.) 1468 The.
... a mathematical law of dynamics universally valid for all changes in velocity. Joan of Arc, aged 22, “placed high on the fire so the flames would reach her slowly,” dies. 1431 (She is asked why she wears male costume.) 1468 The.
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