Cover Page; Title Page; Contents; Dedication; Preface to the Second Edition; Preface; Prologue; Book One: Matter; Matter; Land (Her Changing Face); Timber (What Was There for Them); Wind; Cows (The Way We Yield); Mules; The Show Horse; Her Body; Book Two: Separation; Where He Begins; His Power (He Tames What Is Wild); His Vigilance (How He Must Keep Watch); His Knowledge (He Determines What Is Real); His Control (How He Becomes Invulnerable); His Certainty (How He Rules the Universe); His Cataclysm (The Universe Shudders); His Secrets (What Is Sleeping Within); Terror; Book Three: Passage.;A seminal work of the eco-feminist movement, connecting patriarchal society's mistreatment of women with its disregard for the Earth's ecological well-beingWoman and Nature draws from a vast and enthralling array of literary, scientific, and philosophical texts in order to explore the relationship between the denigration of women and the disregard for the Earth. In this singular work of love, passion, rage, and beauty, Susan Griffin ingeniously blends history, feminist philosophy, and environmental concerns, employing her acclaimed poetic sensibilities to question the mores of Western society.