Gaard,Greta

Ecofeminist literary criticism : theory, interpretation, pedagogy / edited by Greta Gaard and Patrick D. Murphy. - Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c1998. - 257 p. ; 24 cm. - The environment and the human condition .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Root of ecofeminism: ecoféminisme / Barbara Gates -- "The women are speaking": literature as theoretical critique / Patrick D. Murphy -- Toward an ecofeminist standpoint theory: bodies as grounds / Deborah Slicer -- Ecofeminist literary criticism: reading the orange / Josephine Donovan -- "Buffalo gals won't you come out tonight": a call for boundary-crossing in ecofeminist literary criticism / Karla Armbruster -- "Skin dreaming": the bodily transgressions of Fielding Burke, Octavia Butler, and Linda Hogan / Stacy Alaimo -- Ecocritical Chicana literatures: Ana Castillo's "virtual realism" / Kamala Platt -- Rethinking dichotomies in Terry Tempest Williams's refuge / Cassandra Kircher -- In search of common ground: an ecofeminist inquiry into Christa Wolf's work / Deborah Janson -- Grassroots ecofeminism: activating Utopia / Cathleen Mcguire and Colleen Mcguire -- Deep response: an ecofeminist, dialogical approach to introductory literature classrooms / John Paul Tassoni -- Hiking without a map: reflections

0252023730 (acidfree paper) 0252067088 (pbk. : acidfree paper)

97045322


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.

PS169.E25 / E25 1998

801.95 / GRE/E