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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... laws govern all mutability , and that the invariability of God's will can be deduced from the perfection of His laws which rule the natural world . It is posited that the spaces between the planetary orbits each corre- spond to Euclid's ...
... laws govern all mutability , and that the invariability of God's will can be deduced from the perfection of His laws which rule the natural world . It is posited that the spaces between the planetary orbits each corre- spond to Euclid's ...
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... laws of the universe and that there is nothing He cannot do . That He created natural law but that He is above natural law and need not obey it . Yet it is finally agreed that God does not speak to us . ( God has no mouth . ) That God ...
... laws of the universe and that there is nothing He cannot do . That He created natural law but that He is above natural law and need not obey it . Yet it is finally agreed that God does not speak to us . ( God has no mouth . ) That God ...
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... laws of nature , which become , in their turn , new laws of action . ) We are nature , we are told , without intelligence " All organic beings are exposed to severe competition , " it is written . And it is observed that all creatures ...
... laws of nature , which become , in their turn , new laws of action . ) We are nature , we are told , without intelligence " All organic beings are exposed to severe competition , " it is written . And it is observed that all creatures ...
Table des matières
MATTER | 5 |
LAND Her Changing Face | 47 |
TIMBER What Was There for Them | 56 |
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