Woman and Nature: The Roaring Inside Her
By Susan Griffin.
Description
In this famously provocative cornerstone of feminist literature, Susan Griffin explores the identification of women with the earthboth 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 sourcesfrom timbering manuals to medical texts to Scripture and classical liter...
ISBN(s)
0060907444, 9780060907440
