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Women Writing Nature
A Feminist View
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2007
Summary
Since Silent Spring was published in 1962, the number of texts about the natural world written by women has grown exponentially. The essays in Women Writing Nature: A Feminist View argue that women writing in the 20th century are utilizing the historical connection of women and the natural world in diverse ways. For centuries women have been associated with nature but many feminists have sought to distance themselves from the natural world because of dominant cultural representations which reflect women as controlled by powerful natural forces and confined to domestic spaces. However, in the spirit of Rachel Carson, some writers have begun to invoke nature for feminist purposes or have used nature as an agent of resistance. This collection considers women's writings about the natural world in light of recent and current feminist and ecofeminist theory and finds a variety of approaches and perspectives, both by the scholars and by the authors discussed, culminating with the voices of two women, activist and scientist Joan Maloof and Irish poet Rosemarie Rowley, who both write about the natural world from a feminist perspective.
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Bibliographic data
Copyright year
2007
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-1912-9
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-6262-0
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
145
Product type
Edited Book
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1 Introduction: Nature Writing From the Feminine Barbara J. Cook No access Pages 1 - 6
2 Modernist Women, Snake Stories, and the Indigenous Southwest: An Ecofeminist Politics of Creation and Affirmation Alex Hunt No access Pages 7 - 20
3 Littoral Women Writing From the Margins Susan A.C. Rosen No access Pages 21 - 32
4 Multifaceted Dialogues: Toward an Environmental Ethic of Care Barbara J. Cook No access Pages 33 - 40
5 Wild Women: Literary Explorations of American Landscapes Sarah E. McFarland No access Pages 41 - 56
6 Louise Gluck, Feminism and Nature in Firstborn's "The Egg" Mary Kate Azcuy No access Pages 57 - 66
7 Ecofeminism, Motherhood, and the Post-Apocalyptic Utopia in Parable of the Sower, Parable of the Talents, and Into the Forest Heidi Hutner No access Pages 67 - 80
8 Natural Resistance: Margaret Atwood as Ecofeminist or Apocalyptic Visionary H. Louise Davis No access Pages 81 - 94
9 Touching the Earth: Gloria Anzaldúa and the Tenets of Ecofeminism Allison Steele No access Pages 95 - 108
10 Teaching the Trees: How to be a Female Nature Writer Joan E. Maloof No access Pages 109 - 118
11 Confessions of an Ecofeminist Rosemarie Rowley No access Pages 119 - 130
