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is patriarchical in that it is defined by men in a way that closely connects with the subjugation of women, rendering all that is defined as nonhuman as discrete objects also only for attention, domination, and conquest.

Susan Griffin, in her landmark ecofeminist text, Woman and Nature: The Roaring Inside Her, interrogated the ways in which patriarchy since the Greeks has used all three of these modes of discourse to render women the objects of male attention, domination, and conquest. At the same time, Griffin's text reveals the close connection between women's subjugation and the ways in which men have defined nature, to render all that is defined as nonhuman as discrete objects also only for attention, domination, and conquest.

Every time I deny myself I commit a kind of suicide.

A story is told as much by silence as by speech. Susan Griffin

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