Ecofeminism
Coined in 1974 by the French feminist Francoise d'Eaubonne, ecofeminism, or ecological feminism, is a recent movement that asserts that the environment is a feminist issue and tha...
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In the following excerpt, Buell discusses the distinct manner in which nineteenth-century women depicted nature.
The feminist critique of wilderness romance should not block us from seeing how past...
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In the following essay, Donovan posits that Western literary discourse has objectified and degraded nature by using inaccurate symbols (words) to displace the true meaning of the thing being described...
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In the following essay, Littenberg discusses the conditions surrounding the flourishing of women's nature writing in the late nineteenth century.
In the last decades of the nineteenth centur...
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In the following essay, Blair discusses the metaphor of land-as-woman, offers a theoretical foundation for a balanced exploration of gendered landscape representation, and tests her new approach by ap...
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Ecofeminism
Critical Essay by Lawrence Buell
