Woman and Nature: The Roaring Inside Her (Paperback)

by Susan Griffin (Author)

Editorial Reviews

From Library Journal
Written in 1979 when the feminist movement was in full throttle, this became a popular work in women's studies curricula. The feminist movement has since changed course, but Griffin is still beating the drum and in this rerelease offers a new introduction discussing where feminism is now. More for academic collections. (LJ 2/1/79)
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Review
"Woman and Nature is about memory and mutilation, female anger as power, female presence as transforming force. . . . Griffin has collected here the most apparently disparate materials [from lumbering manuals to poetry to gynecology texts] into an extraordinary collage which, for all the research and hard intellectual work underlying it, becomes an intense physical experience."
-- Adrienne Rich

"My journey through the strange and familiar worlds of Woman and Nature has been strengthening and enspiriting. It is a book which I will read and re-read, assign to classes, give to friends. It is a work of great and daring vision."
-- Mary Daly

"Woman and Nature is my favorite -- in my opinion the best -- feminist book of the past twenty-five years. The prose is stunning: this is a book to be read aloud with friends."
-- Carol P. Christ, author of Rebirth of the Goddess and Diving Deep and Surfacing -- Review

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Product Details

• Paperback: 300 pages
• Publisher: Sierra Club Books; Reissue edition (March 14, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1578050472
• ISBN-13: 978-1578050475
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.2 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #51,227 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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34 of 35 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Making the Connections, March 17, 2000

By	Deanna Kay Zaffke (University of Nebraska-Lincoln) - See all my reviews

This book is one of feminism's most unread classics. Griffin made the connections before Lacan and Butler to all the uses Western religion and philosophy has used language and dichotomies to bolster the power of men over women and nature. Her analysis is brilliant, clear, and persuasive. Read in conjunction with eco-feminist analysis, Griffin shows the necessary connections between the abuse of nature and the abuse of women through a rhetorical analysis that remains unmatched in its creativity, prose, and pertinance.

28 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I can't believe only two people have reviewed this book., December 30, 2002

By	Derrick Jensen (Crescent City, CA United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I can't believe only two people have reviewed this extraordinary and extraordinarily beautiful book. It is one of the most important books I've ever read. Using the words of scientific philosophers themselves (but putting them into a beautifully-written, poetic context) Susan Griffin brilliantly shows how the logic of science is fundamentally anti-life, and anti-woman. She juxtaposes this to some of the most wonderful embodied prose you could ever hope to read, and moves the reader from this alienated state of modern civilized people and back into our bodies. Words cannot do this book justice.

12 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars not just for women, July 4, 2003

By	R. Guth - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Reading this book 15 years ago was like putting on my first pair of glasses -- everything was still there, but the details were SO much clearer! Every written record, every thought put to paper, is only a slant on reality, and should never be mistaken for reality itself. Thank you, Ms. Griffin, from a male reader.