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Woman and Nature: The Roaring Inside Her by [Susan Griffin]

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A seminal work of the eco-feminist movement, connecting patriarchal society’s mistreatment of women with its disregard for the Earth’s ecological well-being

Woman and Nature draws from a vast and enthralling array of literary, scientific, and philosophical texts in order to explore the relationship between the denigration of women and the disregard for the Earth. In this singular work of love, passion, rage, and beauty, Susan Griffin ingeniously blends history, feminist philosophy, and environmental concerns, employing her acclaimed poetic sensibilities to question the mores of Western society.

Griffin touches upon subjects as diverse as witch hunts, strip mining, Freudian psychology, and the suppression of sexuality to decry a long-standing history of misogyny and environmental abuse. A sometimes aggravating, often inspiring, and always insightful literary collage, this remarkable volume offers sanity, poetry, intelligence, and illumination.

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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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Susan Griffin is the author of many influential books, including A Chorus of Stones, which won the Bay Area Book Reviewers Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Award. She lives in Berkeley, California. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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"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 --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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"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 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 --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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"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 --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00Z8POVU2
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Open Road Media (July 28, 2015)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ July 28, 2015
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 3394 KB
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Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 358 pages

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Susan Griffin has written over twenty books, including non-fiction, poetry and plays. Her work addresses many social and political issues, social justice, the oppression of women, ecology, war and peace, economic inequities and democracy. Often she approaches her subjects at a slant, using and following the music of language, metaphor, stories and incidents from her own life to reveal the underside of larger histories and realms. Her book, A Chorus of Stones, the Private Life of War, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and a NY Times Notable book in the year it was published. Woman and Nature, considered a classic of environmental writing, is credited for inspiring the eco-feminist movement. The Book of the Courtesans introduced a hidden chapter in women’s history. Along with her co-editor, Karin Carrington, who is a psychotherapist, she has just completed editing an anthology called Transforming Terror, Remembering the Soul of the World, with a preface by Archbishop Desmond Tutu, and contributions from thinkers, psychologists, spiritual and political leaders and poets from diverse cultures and religions, including Mahmoud Darwish, Riane Eisler, Fritjof Capra, Huston Smith, Ariel Dorfman, Dan Ellsberg, and Fatema Mernissi. She is at work now on a novel about climate change and a non-fiction book, The Book of Housewifery, about the hidden meanings and values in domesticity. She and her work have been given many awards, among them a Guggenheim Foundation Award and an Emmy.

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Percl

A must read to understand Man vs Woman

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 15, 2021

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This book was recommended for background for my new painting “The Major Vessel” (woman). It is outstanding!!! Provides a dramatic perspective on the foundation on which man built a jail for a woman’s tool and place in society. Read preface and all that follows to page 1 to understand the voice Griffin gives this book. A read for men as well as women, if the man can handle it.

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Peter C.

Most important book I've read

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 28, 2018

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Of course I was already aware of some of the misogyny in our society. What author Susan Griffin did, in 1978, was describe the process in Western culture by which women and nature were subjected to a male patriarchy. I know that women already know this, but this read shows how deeply it's imbedded in our society. She writes in her 2016 preface to this new addition that she dedicates this book to those beings whom Descartes claimed it would be ridiculous to imagine as having souls.

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Jase_loves_books

Important and memorable

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 22, 2008

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This book was required reading for a graduate level somatic psychology class I participated in back in the mid-80s. I've never forgotten it. She has taken ordinary and unremarkable material and placed it next to seemingly unrelated, equally unremarkable material in such a way as to cause the reader to suddenly see both sets of material from another previously overlooked and awakening angle. She writes with an artist's or photographer's eye. For the most part, she leaves the conclusions to us...letting the dance between the two sets of information open little windows of consciousness that let in life and light. Over the last 20 years or so I have returned to it again and again. A beautiful and extraordinary book, both content and style.

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Jesse Taylor

Changed my worldview ...

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 4, 2008

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This is one of the 3 best books I've ever read. It deeply changed the way that I look at myself, society, and the world we are a part of.

This is a beautiful book -- besides the information content, the writing style is simply beautiful ... I cannot recommend this book highly enough.

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Daniel Park

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 6, 2016

Interesting book

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 9, 2017

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a very powerful and amazing poetic work.
reminds me of Monique Wittig's "The Lesbian Body".

an artistic intro to ecofeminism/
my new favorite book

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I believe that this book has great potential, but the editor should be questioned about ...

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 9, 2016

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The lack of coherency in this book is rather upsetting. It is difficult to find any sort of idea flow inside of the book, proving an infuriating read. I believe that this book has great potential, but the editor should be questioned about how it passed any checks.

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PAUL M MONTGOMERY

Five Stars

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A well described copy!!! Will buy from this seller again.

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V. G. Harwood

Insightful, important feminist classic

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on November 4, 2016

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I bought this book because I'm studying representations of science in the work of an eighteenth-century female writer at the moment. The author I'm studying was greatly concerned with women's place in the natural world and also interested in what we would term ecology now (although I don't think the term existed in the late eighteenth-century). This book is a feminist classic and provided so much insight into woman's position in the natural world (and how the author feels man sees her as belonging in the natural world). It was an incredibly useful book to read for my studies. At the same time, it was utterly and completely bonkers in parts with a really big grudge being held against all those men dating from the 14th century to the 17th century and beyond who burned women at the stake as witches. (I'm not saying it was right for men to do this, but it might be time to let it go - the mistakes of history and all that...) I really would recommend this book - for both the incredibly insightful message it imparts, but the entertainment value as well.

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Redmond

Pas du tout ce que je croyais

Reviewed in France 🇫🇷 on July 23, 2020

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Ce live n'est pas du tout, comme le titre semblait l'indiquer, une analyse féministe du lien entre femme et nature posé dans la plupart des sociétés. Il s'agit d'une évocation poétique et descriptive de ce lien, qui n'apprend pas grand'chose sur les raisons de ce lien, et qui est lassante étirée sur plusieurs centaines de pages.

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Christine McGregor

Worth every dollar!

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on October 23, 2020

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What a complex and captivating read!

Diana Garcia

Buena recomendación

Reviewed in Mexico 🇲🇽 on December 20, 2018

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He estado buscando este libro por mucho tiempo y estoy emocionada de empezar a leerlo

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