ABSTRACT
Exploring environmental literature from a feminist perspective, this volume presents a diversity of feminist ecocritical approaches to affirm the continuing contributions, relevance, and necessity of a feminist perspective in environmental literature, culture, and science. Feminist ecocriticism has a substantial history, with roots in second- and third-wave feminist literary criticism, women’s environmental writing and social change activisms, and eco-cultural critique, and yet both feminist and ecofeminist literary perspectives have been marginalized. The essays in this collection build on the belief that the repertoire of violence (conceptual and literal) toward nature and women comprising our daily lives must become central to our ecocritical discussions, and that basic literacy in theories about ethics are fundamental to these discussions. The book offers an international collection of scholarship that includes ecocritical theory, literary criticism, and ecocultural analyses, bringing a diversity of perspectives in terms of gender, sexuality, and race. Reconnecting with the histories of feminist and ecofeminist literary criticism, and utilizing new developments in postcolonial ecocriticism, animal studies, queer theory, feminist and gender studies, cross-cultural and international ecocriticism, this timely volume develops a continuing and international feminist ecocritical perspective on literature, language, and culture.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|67 pages
Feminist Ecocritical Theory
chapter 2|19 pages
Toxic Epiphanies
part II|63 pages
Feminist/Postcolonial/Environmental Justice
chapter 5|14 pages
Streams of Violence
chapter 6|19 pages
Saving the Costa Rican Rainforest
part III|70 pages
Species, Sexualities, and Eco-Activisms
chapter 12|16 pages
Down with People
part IV|58 pages
Apocalyptic Visions