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Undomesticated Ground - Recasting Nature as Feminist Space (Hardcover)
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Undomesticated Ground - Recasting Nature as Feminist Space (Hardcover)
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From "Mother Earth" to "Mother Nature," women have for centuries
been associated with nature. Feminists, troubled by the way in
which such representations show women controlled by powerful
natural forces and confined to domestic space, have sought to
distance themselves from nature. In Undomesticated Ground, Stacy
Alaimo issues a bold call to reclaim nature as feminist space. Her
analysis of a remarkable range of feminist writings as well as of
popular journalism, visual arts, television, and film powerfully
demonstrates that nature has been and continues to be 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.By examining the
importance of nature within literary and political texts, this book
greatly expands the parameters of the nature writing genre and
establishes nature as a crucial site for the cultural work of
feminism."
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