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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... wave of feminism, once I graduated college, I encountered an implacable barricade of prejudice where I worked and eventually after I was married, in my own home. As history has revealed, I was not alone in my discontent. Now the habit ...
... wave of feminism, once I graduated college, I encountered an implacable barricade of prejudice where I worked and eventually after I was married, in my own home. As history has revealed, I was not alone in my discontent. Now the habit ...
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... wave of assumptions that have dominated Western culture, unexamined ideas that alienate us from nature, and from the material world, including our own bodies. I was not alone in challenging this alienation. Naturalists from Thoreau to ...
... wave of assumptions that have dominated Western culture, unexamined ideas that alienate us from nature, and from the material world, including our own bodies. I was not alone in challenging this alienation. Naturalists from Thoreau to ...
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... wave, the sensation unique, not like anything else I had ever felt, filled with a knowledge even today I cannot put into words; standing in the stillness of the Mojave desert, silence not a concept, but palpable, a force. And as a very ...
... wave, the sensation unique, not like anything else I had ever felt, filled with a knowledge even today I cannot put into words; standing in the stillness of the Mojave desert, silence not a concept, but palpable, a force. And as a very ...
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... wave. We are gazelle and doe, elephant and whale, lilies and roses and peach, we are air, we are flame, we are oyster and pearl, we are girls. We are woman and nature. And he says he cannot hear us speak. But we hear. BOOK ONE MATTER ...
... wave. We are gazelle and doe, elephant and whale, lilies and roses and peach, we are air, we are flame, we are oyster and pearl, we are girls. We are woman and nature. And he says he cannot hear us speak. But we hear. BOOK ONE MATTER ...
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... , it is shown, and it is declared that all the boulders, even enormous fragments from the Alps, were rolled by the sea in one great tidal wave which spread over the splintered valleys. And the chains of mountains, it is said, were made.
... , it is shown, and it is declared that all the boulders, even enormous fragments from the Alps, were rolled by the sea in one great tidal wave which spread over the splintered valleys. And the chains of mountains, it is said, were made.
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