Undomesticated Ground
Subtitle: Recasting Nature As Feminist Space
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: June 22, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780801437359
Subjects: Cultural studies; Feminism; Literary studies: general; Women In Literature; Literary Criticism; Sociology; Science/Mathematics; USA; Nature in literature; Feminism & Feminist Theory; American - General; Feminist; Ecofeminism; Feminist theory; Philosophy of nature
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.