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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... where we worked prepared the way for stories about rape or abortion we had been too ashamed to share. Bit by bit, the lid was blown off our seeming complacence. On the bedrock of this shared honesty, the foundation for.
... where we worked prepared the way for stories about rape or abortion we had been too ashamed to share. Bit by bit, the lid was blown off our seeming complacence. On the bedrock of this shared honesty, the foundation for.
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... stories in dominant religions that imagined divinity as male and that in this way justified the abuse and oppression of women. When I was asked to deliver a lecture on women and ecology to a class at the University of California, I ...
... stories in dominant religions that imagined divinity as male and that in this way justified the abuse and oppression of women. When I was asked to deliver a lecture on women and ecology to a class at the University of California, I ...
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... stories of women mating with monkeys or bears and bearing progeny.) Slavery is said to be a condition of every higher civilization. A woman should be an enthusiastic slave to the man to whom she has given her heart, it is declared. “I ...
... stories of women mating with monkeys or bears and bearing progeny.) Slavery is said to be a condition of every higher civilization. A woman should be an enthusiastic slave to the man to whom she has given her heart, it is declared. “I ...
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... stories of a fabulous island called Bimini where gold, delicious fruits, and all that man might desire could be found in abundance. Furthermore, the island had a fountain which had the virtue of restoring youth to any old man who drank ...
... stories of a fabulous island called Bimini where gold, delicious fruits, and all that man might desire could be found in abundance. Furthermore, the island had a fountain which had the virtue of restoring youth to any old man who drank ...
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... story of the carbon cycle. (He masters the properties of chlorophyll.) He recites the story of the nitrogen cycle. (He brings nitrogen out of the air.) He determines the composition of the soil. (Over and over he can plant the same plot ...
... story of the carbon cycle. (He masters the properties of chlorophyll.) He recites the story of the nitrogen cycle. (He brings nitrogen out of the air.) He determines the composition of the soil. (Over and over he can plant the same plot ...
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