06140oam 2200817I 450 991079201970332120230803023748.01-134-07966-41-134-07959-10-203-52084-X10.4324/9780203520840 (CKB)2560000000102552(EBL)1211708(SSID)ssj0000887608(PQKBManifestationID)12374590(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000887608(PQKBWorkID)10841978(PQKB)10925179(MiAaPQ)EBC1211708(Au-PeEL)EBL1211708(CaPaEBR)ebr10719775(CaONFJC)MIL497049(OCoLC)852663475(FINmELB)ELB131982(EXLCZ)99256000000010255220180706d2013 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrInternational perspectives in feminist ecocriticism /edited by Greta Gaard, Simon C. Estok, and Serpil OppermannNew York :Routledge,2013.1 online resource (309 p.)Routledge interdisciplinary perspectives on literature ;16Routledge interdisciplinary perspectives on literature ;16Description based upon print version of record.1-138-93439-9 0-415-82260-2 Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Foreword; Introduction; Origins of Feminist Ecocriticism; Feminist Ecocritical Theory; Feminist/postcolonial/environmentalJustice; Species,Sexualities, Eco-Activisms; Apocalyptic Visions; Why Feminist Ecocriticism Now?; Notes; Works Cited; Part I: Feminist Ecocritical Theory; 1. Feminist Ecocriticism: A Posthumanist Directionin Ecocritical Trajectory; Ecofeminist Lineage; New Theories and Practices: Feminist Ecocriticism; Notes; Works Cited2. Toxic Epiphanies: Dioxin, Power, and Gendered Bodies in Laura Conti's Narratives on SevesoNarrating an Italian Eco-Catastrophe:Laura Conti in Seveso; Revealing Agencies: Materiality, Discourse, and Narratives; Narrative Agencies: Posthuman Subjects and Voices of Marginality; Detoxifying Discourses: Feminism, Ecocriticism, and Narratives of Liberation; Notes; Works Cited; 3. Treating Objects Like Women: Feminist Ontology and the Question of Essence; The Essence of the Problem: the Problem of Essence; Entanglement; Contradictory Objects; Introverted Objects; Essence Revisited; NotesWorks Cited4. The Ecophobia Hypothesis: Re-membering the Feminist Body of Ecocriticism; Notes; Works Cited; Part II: Feminist/Postcolonial/Environmental Justice; 5. Streams of Violence: Colonialism, Modernization, and Gender in María Cristina Mena's "John of God, the Water-Carrier"; The Challenge to Ecofeminism; Indigenous Women and the Literary Imagination; Sexual Violence and Neocolonialism in thePorfiriato; Women and the Modernization of Water in Mexico; Indigenous Women's Resistance; Notes; Works Cited; 6. Saving the Costa Rican Rainforest: Anacristina Rossi's Mad About GandocaThe Ecofeminist NovelLiterature as Public Memory; New Directions; Notes; Works Cited; 7. The Poetics of Decolonization: Reading Carpentaria in a Feminist Ecocritical Frame; Approaching Carpentaria; The Logic of Colonization; The Poetics of Decolonization; Notes; Works Cited; 8. Re-Imagining the Human: Ecofeminism, Affect,and Postcolonial Narration; Imagination at the Intersections: Ecofeminism, Affect, and Postcolonial Narration; Astley's Affective Narration: Re-Imagining HumanEmbodiment and Embeddedness; Forms of Relationality: Re-Imaginingthe Human Through Narrative Form; Notes; Works CitedPart III: Species, Sexualities, and Eco-Activisms9. Women and Interspecies Care: Dog Mothers in Taiwan; Industrialization's Leftovers; Pets; A Feminist Ecocritical Framework; Contributions, Checks, New Directions; Notes; Works Cited; 10. The Queer Vegetarian: Understanding Alimentary Activism; Toward a Queer Vegetarian Ecofeminism; Ecocritical Pasts and Repasts; At the Borders of the Human and Nonhuman; Coalicious; Notes; Works Cited; 11.Sex, Population, and Environmental Eugenics in Margaret Atwood's Oryx snd Crake snd The Year of the FloodPopulation Platforms:From Malthus to Reproductive JusticeExploring environmental literature from a feminist perspective, this volume presents a diversity of feminist ecocritical approaches to affirm the continuing contributions, relevance, and necessity of a feminist perspective in environmental literature, culture, and science. Feminist ecocriticism has a substantial history, with roots in second- and third-wave feminist literary criticism, women's environmental writing and social change activisms, and eco-cultural critique, and yet both feminist and ecofeminist literary perspectives have been marginalized. The essays in this collection build onRoutledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on LiteratureAmerican literatureWomen authorsHistory and criticismEcofeminism in literatureFeminist literary criticismEcology in literatureNature in literatureFeminism and literatureUnited StatesAmerican literatureWomen authorsHistory and criticism.Ecofeminism in literature.Feminist literary criticism.Ecology in literature.Nature in literature.Feminism and literature810.9/355Estok Simon C1533791Gaard Greta Claire1533792Oppermann Serpil1509822MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910792019703321International perspectives in feminist ecocriticism3780918UNINA