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From: Mississippi Quarterly[(essay date 2011) In the following essay, Bilbro provides an ecofeminist interpretation of Berry’s erotic descriptions of farming and his comparisons of the farmer’s relationship with soil to marriage. He contends that...
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From: Nature in Literary and Cultural Studies: Transatlantic Conversations on Ecocriticism[(essay date 2006) In the following essay, Hartmann interprets Surfacing as an ecofeminist work. She argues that “recent efforts to expand the boundaries of ecocriticism in the direction of a more encompassing plurality...
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From: Nature in Literary and Cultural Studies: Transatlantic Conversations on Ecocriticism[(essay date 2006) In the following essay, Mayer studies Surfacing and Oryx and Crake from the perspective of ecofeminist criticism. Citing the narrator’s eventual realization that “language is fundamental for human...
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From:Estudios Irlandeses - Journal of Irish Studies (Issue 15-2) Peer-ReviewedThe Irish writer Clare Boylan is something of a forgotten figure, despite enjoying significant literary success in her lifetime. Because of her untimely death, little critical work has been done on her fiction. Her...
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From:Hecate (Vol. 44, Issue 1-2) Peer-ReviewedAlthough Germaine Greer is best known for her often-controversial opinions on feminist issues, her interest in and engagement with the botanical sciences and environmental conservation dates back several decades. Greer...
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From:Atenea (Vol. 26, Issue 1)A feminist response has always been about making the invisible visible. It has always been a response to something deemed unjust and in need of change. A feminist response is, at its core, a political reaction built on...
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From:Papers on Language & Literature (Vol. 53, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedUsing an ecofeminist lens shows how Andrew Marvell's Fairfax poems employ traditional constructions of nature as feminine in order to shore up the power of the patriarchal subject. But this ecofeminist framework will...
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From:Hecate (Vol. 38, Issue 1-2) Peer-ReviewedThis article explores how new materialist feminism, a recent development in feminist theory, builds on ecofeminist philosophy. It argues that, like later ecofeminist work new materialist feminism disrupts the gendered...
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From:Hispanofila (Issue 173) Peer-ReviewedTHE first Fiesta de la Planta took place on Christmas Day, 1921, in Vitarte, an industrial suburb of Lima, Peru. Home to a large textile mill, Vitarte at the turn of the century was a community of organized workers who...
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From:Theatre History Studies (Vol. 35) Peer-ReviewedIn Marisol (1993) and Heroes and Saints (1992), the images that Jose Rivera and Cherrie Moraga contend with are of the poisoned earth and poisoned bodies, of deformed infants and bodiless heads, of a man giving birth...
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From:Extrapolation (Vol. 44, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed* That we live in an age of rapid, ongoing technological change hardly needs to be said; newspaper and magazine accounts are full of hype about the wonders or dangers of new technologies. There is a need to temper...
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From:Journal of Literary Studies (Vol. 23, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedSummary When Nobel Peace Prize laureate Wangari Maathai, the first African woman, and the first person ever to win the award for environmental activism, was asked by Time magazine's Stephan Faris, "What's the world's...
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From:Critical Survey (Vol. 29, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAbstract The natural world behaves in unexpected ways in twentieth-century Irish women's fiction about girlhood. Girls are at once reduced to natural resources, ripe for exploitation, and instructed relentlessly in...
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From:Virginia Woolf Miscellany (Issue 81) Peer-ReviewedVirginia Woolf and Critical Uses of Ecofeminism What do we mean when we say that we are taking an ecofeminist approach to Woolf? Appealing though its theories may be, ecofeminism offers numerous pitfalls, starting...
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From:Critical Survey (Vol. 25, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedAbstract This article rereads early dystopian eco-narratives and explores the ways in which Margaret Atwood and Marge Piercy manipulate established generic conventions to make correlations between their fiction and...
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From:LEA - Lingue e Letterature d'Oriente e d'Occidente (Vol. 6) Peer-ReviewedIn this article we present the database Dove/nondove, which aims aims to collect and list the texts of female authors who've wrote about places and spaces. The goal is to create a global hypertext, monitoring the...
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From:Theory and Practice in Language Studies (Vol. 8, Issue 11) Peer-ReviewedD. H. Lawrence is an influential figure of the 20th century in English literature, and also one of the most controversial writer. This paper mainly analyzes Sons and Lovers from the perspective of ecofeminism, by...
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From:Feminist Studies (Vol. 40, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIN HER RECENT BOOK, Brave New Words: How Literature Will Save the Planet , Elizabeth Ammons describes her investment in environmental literature, a subject matter that is appealing to her in part because of its roots in...
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From:MELUS (Vol. 37, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedI am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. Like bodiless heads you see sometimes in circus sideshows, it is as though I have been surrounded by mirrors of hard, distorting glass. When they...
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From:Italica (Vol. 87, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedDisrupting the opposition between nature and culture opens up spaces for feminisms that neither totally affirm nor totally deny difference. Feminism can instead cobble together a myriad of adulterated alternatives that...