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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... matter, the human body, sensations, feelings, emotions, and “subjective” experience—and its failure to examine critically the theories and social practices producing this metaphysics or epistemology—that directs the arrogant relation to ...
... matter, the human body, sensations, feelings, emotions, and “subjective” experience—and its failure to examine critically the theories and social practices producing this metaphysics or epistemology—that directs the arrogant relation to ...
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... matter and spirit, saw them as indivisible. The women's movement on both the West and East Coasts had its own poetry too, describing life as women saw it then, with vibrant honesty, rousing chants, wit, irony. Lines cut to the quick of ...
... matter and spirit, saw them as indivisible. The women's movement on both the West and East Coasts had its own poetry too, describing life as women saw it then, with vibrant honesty, rousing chants, wit, irony. Lines cut to the quick of ...
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... matter and nature with similar statements about women. This book was also influenced from the start by feminist thinkers who were looking critically at those doctrines, myths and stories in dominant religions that imagined divinity as ...
... matter and nature with similar statements about women. This book was also influenced from the start by feminist thinkers who were looking critically at those doctrines, myths and stories in dominant religions that imagined divinity as ...
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... matter, seemed to me to gain significance when placed against man's attitude that woman is both inferior to him and closer to nature. Hence this book called Woman and Nature grew. In the process of writing I found that I could best ...
... matter, seemed to me to gain significance when placed against man's attitude that woman is both inferior to him and closer to nature. Hence this book called Woman and Nature grew. In the process of writing I found that I could best ...
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... matter, or the nature of nature, and place these judgments side by side, chronologically, with men's opinions about the nature of women throughout history. From this philosophical beginning the book becomes more actual, treating of the ...
... matter, or the nature of nature, and place these judgments side by side, chronologically, with men's opinions about the nature of women throughout history. From this philosophical beginning the book becomes more actual, treating of the ...
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