recasting nature as feminist space
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Alaimo, Stacy
- Publish Year
- 2000
- Shelfmark
- B1150 - B
- Thesaurus
- ecofeminisme, theorieën, feminisme, indianen, kolonialisme, voortplanting, milieu, romans, cyborgs
- Description
- From 'Mother Earth' to 'Mother Nature,' women have for centuries been associated with nature. Feminists were sometimes troubled by the way in which such representations show women controlled by powerful natural forces. In this book Stacy Alaimo issues a call to reclaim nature as feminist space. Her analysis of a range of feminist writings--as well as of popular culture--demonstrates that nature has been 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. 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. 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.