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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... imagine as having souls. And it is why now, thinking of future generations, I will end this introduction with a prayer. As we find ourselves today on the brink of destroying the natural world that has sustained us, let us have the ...
... imagine as having souls. And it is why now, thinking of future generations, I will end this introduction with a prayer. As we find ourselves today on the brink of destroying the natural world that has sustained us, let us have the ...
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... imagine men as farther away from nature. And in this way, both men and women can indulge in the fantasy that the human condition can be free of mortality, as well as the exigencies and needs of natural limitation. It is popular now to ...
... imagine men as farther away from nature. And in this way, both men and women can indulge in the fantasy that the human condition can be free of mortality, as well as the exigencies and needs of natural limitation. It is popular now to ...
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... imagine, that matter traps us in darkness. That the idea of matter existed before matter and is more perfect, ideal. Matter is transitory and illusory, it is said. This world is an allegory for the next. The moon is an image of the ...
... imagine, that matter traps us in darkness. That the idea of matter existed before matter and is more perfect, ideal. Matter is transitory and illusory, it is said. This world is an allegory for the next. The moon is an image of the ...
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... power will come to stop? Commonplace individuals can never imagine them beyond their own horizon but nevertheless every day that horizon is widened. Every day its limits are put back. ...” 1882 1876 A central power station is built in New.
... power will come to stop? Commonplace individuals can never imagine them beyond their own horizon but nevertheless every day that horizon is widened. Every day its limits are put back. ...” 1882 1876 A central power station is built in New.
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... imagine that the heartbeat of a man speeding near the velocity of light would slow down and he would grow old more slowly and he would die later. (The scientists conclude that they are in a system in which the mechanical laws of ...
... imagine that the heartbeat of a man speeding near the velocity of light would slow down and he would grow old more slowly and he would die later. (The scientists conclude that they are in a system in which the mechanical laws of ...
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