Lexington Books
Pages: 152
Trim: 6½ x 9½
978-0-7391-1912-9 • Hardback • December 2007 • $113.00 • (£87.00)
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Barbara J. Cook is assistant professor of English and WomenOs Studies at Mount Aloysius College.
Chapter 1 1. Introduction: Nature Writing From the Feminine
Chapter 2 2. Modernist Women, Snake Stories, and the Indigenous Southwest: An Ecofeminist Politics of Creation and Affirmation
Chapter 3 3. Littoral Women Writing From the Margins
Chapter 4 4. Multifaceted Dialogues: Toward an Environmental Ethic of Care
Chapter 5 5. Wild Women: Literary Explorations of American Landscapes
Chapter 6 6. Louise Gluck, Feminism and Nature in Firstborn's The Egg
Chapter 7 7. Ecofeminism, Motherhood, and the Post-Apocalyptic Utopia inParable of the Sower, Parable of the Talents, and Into the Forest
Chapter 8 8. Natural Resistance: Margaret Atwood as Eco-Feminist or Apocalyptic Visionary
Chapter 9 9. Touching the Earth: Gloria Anzaldúa and the Tenets of Ecofeminism
Chapter 10 Voices From the Field
Chapter 11 10. Teaching the Trees: How to be a Female Nature Writer
Chapter 12 11. Confessions of an Eco-Feminist
The editor provides a cogent explanation of the basic premises of ecofeminism and a brief history of nature writing by North American women....Recommended.....
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