She elucidates the association of women with matter in European culture in the work of seminal thinkers from Plato to Freud, and shows how this prejudicial assumption is an influence on and a consequence of religious ideas, the development of science and reductive views of the material world. Among the first to explore this subject, she probes the patterns of thought and behavior that have led to the destruction of nature, the oppression of women and the diminishment of both in the Western imagination. Susan Griffin reveals the connection between feminism and ecology. “…perhaps the most extraordinary nonfiction book to have emerged from the matrix of female consciousness.”-Adrienne Rich
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