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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... witches . That “ Lucifer before his Fall , as an archangel , was a clear body , composed of the purest and brightest air , but that after his Fall he was veiled with a grosser substance and took a new form of dark and thick air . " That ...
... witches . That “ Lucifer before his Fall , as an archangel , was a clear body , composed of the purest and brightest air , but that after his Fall he was veiled with a grosser substance and took a new form of dark and thick air . " That ...
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... witches burn in a single year in the diocese of Como. Vesalius publishes De Humani Corporis Fabrica. Copernicus publishes De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium. (She is asked if she is in a state of grace. She is asked if St. Margaret ...
... witches burn in a single year in the diocese of Como. Vesalius publishes De Humani Corporis Fabrica. Copernicus publishes De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium. (She is asked if she is in a state of grace. She is asked if St. Margaret ...
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... witches. 1609 Galileo, on hearing a rumor of the invention of a glass magnifying distant objects, constructs a telescope. (It is urged that nature must be hounded in her wanderings before one can lead her and drive her.) 1609 Kepler ...
... witches. 1609 Galileo, on hearing a rumor of the invention of a glass magnifying distant objects, constructs a telescope. (It is urged that nature must be hounded in her wanderings before one can lead her and drive her.) 1609 Kepler ...
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... witches be extirpated by fire and sword. 1745 Witch trial at Lyon, five sentenced to death. 1749 Sister Maria Renata executed and burned. 1775 Anna Maria Schnagel executed for witchcraft. (She confesses she passed through the keyhole of ...
... witches be extirpated by fire and sword. 1745 Witch trial at Lyon, five sentenced to death. 1749 Sister Maria Renata executed and burned. 1775 Anna Maria Schnagel executed for witchcraft. (She confesses she passed through the keyhole of ...
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... which will drench him to the skin. The. Abyss. She claims him with her great blue eyes She binds him with her hair; Oh, break the spell with holy words, Unbind him with a prayer! This wild abyss, JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER, “The Witch of ...
... which will drench him to the skin. The. Abyss. She claims him with her great blue eyes She binds him with her hair; Oh, break the spell with holy words, Unbind him with a prayer! This wild abyss, JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER, “The Witch of ...
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