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.
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
literaturein showing how destructive has been the impulse to
disembody the human soul, and how the long separated might once
more be rejoined. Poet Adrienne Rich calls Woman and Nature perhaps
the most extraordinary nonfiction work to have merged from the
matrix of contemporary female consciousnessa 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. "
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