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Jacqueline Rose: The intimate geography of women, 30 September 1999
Woman: An Intimate Geography
by Natalie Angier.
Virago, 398 pp., £17.99, March 1999,1 86049 685 7 Show More
by Natalie Angier.
Virago, 398 pp., £17.99, March 1999,
Midnight Salvage: Poems 1995-98
by Adrienne Rich.
Norton, 75 pp., £14.95, March 1999,0 393 04682 6 Show More
by Adrienne Rich.
Norton, 75 pp., £14.95, March 1999,
“... The language of survival has always been fundamental to feminism. Germaine Greer seems to be convinced that the species is heading for extinction. (Some time ago, in an article in the Observer, she envisaged a time ‘when, far in the future, the human race has exterminated itself.’) For a time, Adrienne Rich believed that what was destroying itself was patriarchy: ‘The creative energy of patriarchy is fast running out,’ she wrote in 1971, ‘what remains is its self-generating energy for destruction’ (‘When We Dead Awaken ... ”