Ecofeminist literary criticism
Subtitle: theory, interpretation, pedagogy
By: edited by Greta Gaard and Patrick D. Murphy.
Contributors: Gaard, Greta Claire.; Murphy, Patrick D., 1951-
Series: The environment and the human condition
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 257
Subjects: American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.; Ecology in literature.; American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.; American literature -- Women authors -- Study and teaching.; Feminism and literature -- United States.; Women and literature -- United States.; Human ecology in literature.; Feminist literary criticism.; Ecofeminism in literature.; Nature in literature.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Root of ecofeminism: ecoféminisme / Barbara Gates; title: "The women are speaking": literature as theoretical critique / Patrick D. Murphy; title: Toward an ecofeminist standpoint theory: bodies as grounds / Deborah Slicer; title: Ecofeminist literary criticism: reading the orange / Josephine Donovan; title: "Buffalo gals won't you come out tonight": a call for boundary-crossing in ecofeminist literary criticism / Karla Armbruster; title: "Skin dreaming": the bodily transgressions of Fielding Burke, Octavia Butler, and Linda Hogan / Stacy Alaimo; title: Ecocritical Chicana literatures: Ana Castillo's "virtual realism" / Kamala Platt; title: Rethinking dichotomies in Terry Tempest Williams's refuge / Cassandra Kircher; title: In search of common ground: an ecofeminist inquiry into Christa Wolf's work / Deborah Janson; title: Grassroots ecofeminism: activating Utopia / Cathleen Mcguire and Colleen Mcguire; title: Deep response: an ecofeminist, dialogical approach to introductory literature classrooms / John Paul Tassoni; title: Hiking without a map: reflections