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 both of us ... Griffin has collected here the most apparently disparate materials ... 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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... never satisfied . To yield to her one demand is to yield to endless demanding . In her is a depth so profound , she darkens all light . The voyager never finds his way out . She is an infinite ocean . Inside her body is hell . Burning ...
... never satisfied . To yield to her one demand is to yield to endless demanding . In her is a depth so profound , she darkens all light . The voyager never finds his way out . She is an infinite ocean . Inside her body is hell . Burning ...
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... never in her life stretched those legs . Never darted farther than twenty yards at a time . Only once did she use her claws . Only once did she feel them sink into flesh . And it was her keeper's flesh . Her keeper whom she loves , who ...
... never in her life stretched those legs . Never darted farther than twenty yards at a time . Only once did she use her claws . Only once did she feel them sink into flesh . And it was her keeper's flesh . Her keeper whom she loves , who ...
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... never spends time . Time is his executor . In his quest for greater and greater speed , he casts away whatever gives him weight . Weight is his enemy . He seeks weightlessness . He casts away excess . He does not tolerate the ...
... never spends time . Time is his executor . In his quest for greater and greater speed , he casts away whatever gives him weight . Weight is his enemy . He seeks weightlessness . He casts away excess . He does not tolerate the ...
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MATTER | 2 |
LAND Her Changing Face | 47 |
TIMBER What Was There for Them | 56 |
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