Undomesticated Ground
Subtitle: Recasting Nature As Feminist Space
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: June 8, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780801486432
Subjects: Cultural studies; Feminism; Literary studies: general; Nature in literature; Feminist; Literary Criticism; Sociology; Science/Mathematics; USA; Philosophy of nature; Feminism & Feminist Theory; American - General; Ecofeminism; Feminist theory
First sentence: Disney's recent blockbuster Pocahontas, advertised with previews featuring the "Indian maiden" gracefully cascading hundreds of feet down a waterfall into an Edenic pool, feeds that ravenous American hunger for "unspoiled" nature, preferably inhabited by accommodating, feminine, dark-skinned beings.