Paisagens aquaticas femininas

Our bodies contain, on average, 60% water by weight (slightly greater for men and smaller for women). Nothing is more fundamental to life than water and human beings cannot survive more than a few days without it. The importance of the physical perseverance of water in human life and shown by the privileged place that it occupies in the imagination and in the cosmologies of human beings. Wager draws attention to the fact that water has a social life (a term widely used to encompass all domains of human relations, including political, economic, and spiritual relations) because, although it circulates between all forms of life and between the animate world and the inanimate world, the human social connections introduced by water constitute a subset of a wider set of ecological relations