Woman and Nature: The Roaring Inside Her

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Summary: Hodgepodge?
Review: I bought this book expecting some kind of feminist, empowering type of thing like "When God Was a Woman" by Merlin Stone. It is certainly not. This book is a hodgepodge of stream-of-consciousness poetry which is empowering in its own way, but really not what I was looking for. That is why the 3 stars, because I expected something else, not because it was poorly written or something.

Rating:
Summary: Hodgepodge?
Review: I bought this book expecting some kind of feminist, empowering type of thing like "When God Was a Woman" by Merlin Stone. It is certainly not. This book is a hodgepodge of stream-of-consciousness poetry which is empowering in its own way, but really not what I was looking for. That is why the 3 stars, because I expected something else, not because it was poorly written or something.

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Summary: I can't believe only two people have reviewed this book.
Review: 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.

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Summary: not just for women
Review: 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.

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Summary: not just for women
Review: 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.

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Summary: Making the Connections
Review: 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.