Women Writing Nature: A Feminist View

156 Pages·2008·34.457 MB·English

by  Barbara Cook (editor)

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'feminist View
W O M E N
W R I T I N G
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J.
BARBARA COOK
EDITED BY

Women Writing Nature

Women Writing Nature
A Feminist View
EDITED BY
J.
BARBARA COOK
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I. American literature--Women authors- History and criticism. 2. Natural history
literature. 3. Ecofeminism in literature. 4. Philosophy of nature in literature. 5.
Feminism and literature. 6. Feminist criticism. 7. Ecocriticism. I. Cook, Barbara J.
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Table of Contents
1 Introduction: Nature Writing From the Feminine I
Barbara J Cook
2 Modernist Women, Snake Stories, and the Indigenous Southwest: An
Ecofeminist Politics of Creation and Affin:nation 7
Alex Hunt
3 Littoral Women Writing From the Margins 21
Susan A. C. Rosen
4 Multifaceted Dialogues: Toward an Environmental Ethic of Care 33
Barbara J. Cook
5 Wild Women: Literary Explorations of American Landscapes 41
Sarah E. McFarland
6 Louise Gluck, Feminism and Nature in Firstborn's "The Egg" 57
Mary Kate Azcuy
7 ' Ecofeminism, Motherhood, and the Post-Apocalyptic Utopia in
Parable oft he Sower, Parable oft he Talents, and Into the Forest 67
Heidi Hutner
8 Natural Resistance: Margaret Atwood as Ecofeminist or Apocalyptic
Visionary 81
H. Louise Davis
Table of Contents
V111
9 Touching the Earth: Gloria Anzaldua and the Tenets of
95
Ecof eminism
Allison Steele
Voices From the Field
IO Teaching the Trees: How to be a Female Nature Writer 109
Joan E. Maloof
11 Confessions of an Ecofeminist 119
Rosemarie Rowley
Bibliography 131
Index 139
Contributors 143