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. 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. Susan Griffin explores the identification of women with the earth both as sustenance for humanity and as victim of male rage. Woman and Nature: The Roaring Inside Her, p.190, Open Road Media. Woman and Nature: The Roaring Inside Her by Susan Griffin. Her books include Women and Nature: The Roaring Inside Her and. Share Susan Griffin quotations about earth, writing and vision.

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. Susan Griffin is a feminist poet, essayist, lecturer, teacher, playwright, and filmmaker. 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.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. Save up to 80 versus print by going digital with VitalSource. 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. Woman and Nature: The Roaring Inside Her is written by Susan Griffin and published by Counterpoint. 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. 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.

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