From Harriet Beecher Stowe's image of the Mississippi's "bosom" to
Henry David Thoreau's Cape Cod as "the bared and bended arm of
Massachusetts," the U.S. environment has been recurrently
represented in terms of the human body. Exploring such instances of
embodiment, Cecelia Tichi exposes the historically varied and often
contrary geomorphic expression of a national paradigm.
Environmental history as cultural studies, her book plumbs the deep
and peculiarly American bond between nationalism, the environment,
and the human body.
Tichi disputes the United States' reputation of being "nature's
nation." U.S. citizens have screened out nature effectively by
projecting the bodies of U.S. citizens upon nature. She pursues
this idea by pairing Mount Rushmore with Walden Pond as competing
efforts to locate the head of the American body in nature;
Yellowstone's Old Faithful with the Moon as complementary
embodiments of the American frontier; and Hot Springs, Arkansas,
with Love Canal as contrasting sites of the identification of women
and water. A major contribution to current discussions of gender
and nature, her book also demonstrates the intellectual power of
wedding environmental studies to the social history of the human
body.
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