Undomesticated Ground: Recasting Nature as Feminist Space
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| Rating | : | 4.14 (533 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0801486432 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 240 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-06-07 |
| Language | : | English |
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Her new and brilliant insights and her attention to texts totally overlooked in the field make Undomesticated Ground a significant contribution to ecocriticism, women's studies, and American Studies."Melody Graulich, Utah State University . "Undomesticated Ground is an important and informative book, and it should set the stage for an enlivened discussion of nature and feminism."Choice, Vol. 24, No. The texts are grouped chronologically and thematically, and each is carefully considered in relation to its social and historical moment."Meredith Criglington, Canadian Literature 180, Spring 2004"Alaimo's Undmesticat
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In Undomesticated Ground, Stacy Alaimo issues a bold call to reclaim nature as feminist space. Reading works by Catherine Sedgwick, Mary Austin, Emma Goldman, Nella Larson, Donna Haraway, Toni Morrison, and others, Alaimo finds that some of these writers strategically invoke nature for feminist purposes while others cast nature as a postmodern agent of resistance in the service of both environmentalism and the women's movement.By examining the importance of nature within literary and political texts, this book greatly expands the parameters of the nature writing genre and establishes nature as a crucial site for the cultural work of feminism.. She discusses its significance for Americans engaged in social and political struggles from, for example, the "Indian Wars" of the early nineteenth century, to the birth control movement in the 1920s, to contemporary battles against racism and heterosexism. From "Mother Earth" to "Mother Nature," women have for centuries been associated with nature. Her analysis of a remarkable range of feminist writingsas well as of popular journalism, visual arts, television, and filmpowerfully demonstrates that nature has been and continues to be an essential concept for feminist theory and practice.Alaimo urges feminist theorists to rethink the concept of nature by probing the vastly different meanings that it carries. Feminists, troubled by the way in which such representations show women controlled by powerful natural forces and c