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10%OFFStacy Alaimo - Undomesticated Ground: Recasting Nature as Feminist Space - 9780801486432 - V9780801486432
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Undomesticated Ground: Recasting Nature as Feminist Space

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Description for Undomesticated Ground: Recasting Nature as Feminist Space Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages, 6. BIC Classification: DSB; JFC; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 342.

From "Mother Earth" to "Mother Nature," women have for centuries been associated with nature. Feminists, troubled by the way in which such representations show women controlled by powerful natural forces and confined to domestic space, have sought to distance themselves from nature. In Undomesticated Ground, Stacy Alaimo issues a bold call to reclaim nature as feminist space. Her analysis of a remarkable range of feminist writings—as well as of popular journalism, visual arts, television, and film—powerfully demonstrates that nature has been and continues to be an essential concept for feminist theory and practice.

Alaimo urges feminist theorists to rethink the ... Read more

By examining the importance of nature within literary and political texts, this book greatly expands the parameters of the nature writing genre and establishes nature as a crucial site for the cultural work of feminism.

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Product Details

Publisher
Cornell University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Condition
New
Weight
341g
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801486432
SKU
V9780801486432
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1

About Stacy Alaimo
Stacy Alaimo is Professor of English and Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Arlington.

Reviews for Undomesticated Ground: Recasting Nature as Feminist Space
Undomesticated Ground explores a dazzling array of feminist texts that endeavour to inhabit and transform nature as a place of feminist possibility. Throughout, Alaimo remains sensitive to the pitfalls of any alliance between women and nature. The texts are grouped chronologically and thematically, and each is carefully considered in relation to its social and historical moment.
Meredith Criglington
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