A transatlantic phenomenon of the late nineteenth and early
twentieth centuries, the "New Woman" broke away from many of the
constraints of the Victorian era to enjoy a greater freedom of
movement in the social, physical, and intellectual realms. As
Alicia Carroll reveals, the New Woman also played a significant
role in environmental awareness and action.From the Arts and Crafts
period, to before, during, and after the Great War, the iconic
figure of the New Woman accompanied and informed historical women's
responses to the keen environmental issues of their day, including
familiar concerns about air and water quality as well as critiques
of Victorian floral ecologies, extinction narratives, land use,
local food shortages, biodiversity decline, and food importation.
As the Land Question intersected with the Woman Question, women
contributed to a transformative early green culture, extolling the
benefits of going back to the land themselves, as "England should
feed her own people." Carroll traces the convergence of this work
and a self-realization articulated by Mona Caird's 1888 demand for
the "acknowledgement of the obvious right of the woman to possess
herself body and soul." By the early twentieth century, a thriving
community of New Woman authors, gardeners, artists, and land
workers had emerged and created a vibrant discussion. Exploring the
early green culture of Arts and Crafts to women's formation of
rural utopian communities, to the Women's Land Army and herbalists
of the Great War and beyond, New Woman Ecologies shows how women
established both their own autonomy and the viability of an
ecological modernity.
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