Woman and Nature: The Roaring Inside HerHarper & Row, 1978 - 263 pages "Women and nature is about memory and mutilation, female anger as power, female presence as transforming force. It embraces ritual and science, history and imagination, calling up the voices and body of our earth and restoring us to knowledge of her beauty and our own. In one of the infinite false polarities of patriarchy, both the exploiter-rapists and the sexist ecology movement have lumped women and nature together in a view negative for us both ... Griffin has collected here the most apparently disparate materials (lumbering manuals, gynecology texts, the pronouncements of early theologians, annals of American exploration, office manuals, poetry, the dreams of the scientists, etc.) into an extraordinary collage which, for all the research and hard intellectual work underlying it, becomes an intense physical experience"--Back cover. |
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... bird . He could create in his mind the posture of the animal as it perched on the highest limb of a magnolia tree . He could predict every movement of the bird ; he knew his habits . Now as the bird circled his nest , the artist knew he ...
... bird . He could create in his mind the posture of the animal as it perched on the highest limb of a magnolia tree . He could predict every movement of the bird ; he knew his habits . Now as the bird circled his nest , the artist knew he ...
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... bird , except , she thought , as she breathes in the air this bird flies through , except , she thought , as the grass needs the body of the bird to pass its seeds , as the earth needs the grass , as we are made from this earth , she ...
... bird , except , she thought , as she breathes in the air this bird flies through , except , she thought , as the grass needs the body of the bird to pass its seeds , as the earth needs the grass , as we are made from this earth , she ...
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... bird fly to her own purpose , when this bird flies in the path of his own will , the light from this bird enters my body , and when I see the beautiful arc of her flight , I love this bird , when I see , the arc of her flight , I fly ...
... bird fly to her own purpose , when this bird flies in the path of his own will , the light from this bird enters my body , and when I see the beautiful arc of her flight , I love this bird , when I see , the arc of her flight , I fly ...
Table des matières
MATTER | 5 |
LAND Her Changing Face | 47 |
TIMBER What Was There for Them | 56 |
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