“The roaring inside her”, by Susan Griffin, is a nonfiction feminist literature, Susan Griffin, discusses the suffering of nature and links it to women suffering. She seeks to address her work by linking together the destruction of nature, women suffrage, and the power of men towards women. In the book, Susan Griffin, compares women and earth to man. She describes the different roles that men and women play out in society and marriage; she debates topics such as, female oppression, destruction of nature, women injustice and lastly the inequality that exist between men and women. This paper is an overview of the book and Susan Griffin, main arguments. correlation between nature and humankind, along wit to show the connection between women
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Currently, in our generation now many women can relate to this hierarchical perspective. Some examples that can relate to hierarchical roles are employment, education, parenting, even marriage. Women have fought for years to get equal pay or to prove that they can join the job field. The third sentence states “that wind blows in her ears and trees whisper to her”, illustrates that woman in general enjoy and nature, appreciate the wind blowing and the sounds of the trees. The last sentence stated, “he sets himself apart from woman and nature.” In this last statement, we can acknowledge that men view women and nature as “others” as diverse.
In the literature, Susan Griffin, illustrates that women are viewed as weak, too caring, sensitive, fragile, and because of this we are defined as caregivers. In Chapter two: Seperation, she portrays this image by doing a comparison between animals and women. She used farm imagery to prove the labeling that define women. In this chapter, she associates women to cows, mules, and horses to show the inequality of treatment between man and woman, Her first contrast was women with cows. She …show more content…
In fact, there are an outnumber of animals that are becoming extinct. But going back to the topic, she links cows to women by highlighting the cow’s appearance, form of feeding, laboring, milk gland of a cow, development, aging, and calves. We can acknowledge that the same form of cow’s process of feeding and caring is almost comparable to the process women undergo. Women produce milk to nourish and cows do the same; Women give birth and cows too. Sadly, business that use farm animals as a source of income exploit them till their final stage. For this reason, Susan Griffin, argues that woman and animals continue to be underappreciated.
Second notable example that denotes the cruelty done to animals is the training of the horses. Horses are whipped, brutally beaten, and killed for their hair. In the training process horses are tamed by a whip, that trainees use to make them obedient animals.
“It is the horse’s extreme sensitivity to pain, especially in the mouth but also all over her body which allows the rider to control her with the pressure of his own weight the movements of his legs, and with the aid of the bit, the bridle and the rein, the riding whip, the long whip and the spur” (Griffin,2000, p.
Currently, in our generation now many women can relate to this hierarchical perspective. Some examples that can relate to hierarchical roles are employment, education, parenting, even marriage. Women have fought for years to get equal pay or to prove that they can join the job field. The third sentence states “that wind blows in her ears and trees whisper to her”, illustrates that woman in general enjoy and nature, appreciate the wind blowing and the sounds of the trees. The last sentence stated, “he sets himself apart from woman and nature.” In this last statement, we can acknowledge that men view women and nature as “others” as diverse.
In the literature, Susan Griffin, illustrates that women are viewed as weak, too caring, sensitive, fragile, and because of this we are defined as caregivers. In Chapter two: Seperation, she portrays this image by doing a comparison between animals and women. She used farm imagery to prove the labeling that define women. In this chapter, she associates women to cows, mules, and horses to show the inequality of treatment between man and woman, Her first contrast was women with cows. She …show more content…
In fact, there are an outnumber of animals that are becoming extinct. But going back to the topic, she links cows to women by highlighting the cow’s appearance, form of feeding, laboring, milk gland of a cow, development, aging, and calves. We can acknowledge that the same form of cow’s process of feeding and caring is almost comparable to the process women undergo. Women produce milk to nourish and cows do the same; Women give birth and cows too. Sadly, business that use farm animals as a source of income exploit them till their final stage. For this reason, Susan Griffin, argues that woman and animals continue to be underappreciated.
Second notable example that denotes the cruelty done to animals is the training of the horses. Horses are whipped, brutally beaten, and killed for their hair. In the training process horses are tamed by a whip, that trainees use to make them obedient animals.
“It is the horse’s extreme sensitivity to pain, especially in the mouth but also all over her body which allows the rider to control her with the pressure of his own weight the movements of his legs, and with the aid of the bit, the bridle and the rein, the riding whip, the long whip and the spur” (Griffin,2000, p.