Made from this Earth

An Anthology of Writings

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"Susan Griffin has come to be regarded as one of the leading thinkers of the women's movement. But even her most devoted readers will be surprised by the range and richness of work in Made from this Earth, the first anthology of her writing"--Back cover.

Contents:
Part I: Made from this Earth. Introduction
Interviews on Abortion
The Politics of Rape
Women and Children Last
Feminism and Motherhood
Woman and Nature
Sadism and Catharsis: The Treatment Is the Disease
Pornography and Silence
The Way of All Ideology
Part II: Every Woman Who Writes is a Survivor. Introduction
Women and the Creative Process: Lighting the Dark
The Journals of Sylvia Plath: A Review
Making the Park: A Foreword
Lesbians and Literature
Transformations
Notes on the Writing of Poetry
Thoughts on Writing: A Diary. Part III: Poetry as a Way of Knowledge. Introduction
The Sink. The Sink
The Plain One
A Story
Like the Iris of an Eye. Love Should Grow Up Like a Wild Iris in the Fields
Revolution
Is the Air Political Today?
I LIke to Think of Harriet Tubman
In My Dream
Archaeology of a Lost Woman: Fragments
The Woman Who Swims in Her Tears
A Woman Defending Herself Examines Her Own Character Witness
Mother and Child
Breviary
Two Thousand Years
Immersion. Three Love Poems for Kim Chernin
Deer Skull
Forest
The Awful Mother
Our Mother
Immersion
Voices
Thanksgiving
Woman and Nature, Matter: How We Know