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Genre/Form: | Electronic books |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Griffin, Susan Woman and Nature New York : Catapult,c2016 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Susan Griffin |
ISBN: | 9781619028753 1619028751 |
OCLC Number: | 1229926340 |
Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Description: | 1 online resource (296 p.) |
Abstract:
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 s.
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