Women Writing Nature

Barbara J. Cook is assistant professor of English and WomenOs Studies at Mount Aloysius College.

• Chapter 1 1. Introduction: Nature Writing From the FeminineChapter 2 2. Modernist Women, Snake Stories, and the Indigenous Southwest: An Ecofeminist Politics of Creation and AffirmationChapter 3 3. Littoral Women Writing From the MarginsChapter 4 4. Multifaceted Dialogues: Toward an Environmental Ethic of CareChapter 5 5. Wild Women: Literary Explorations of American LandscapesChapter 6 6. Louise Gluck, Feminism and Nature in Firstborn's "The Egg"Chapter 7 7. Ecofeminism, Motherhood, and the Post-Apocalyptic Utopia inParable of the Sower, Parable of the Talents, and Into the ForestChapter 8 8. Natural Resistance: Margaret Atwood as Eco-Feminist or Apocalyptic VisionaryChapter 9 9. Touching the Earth: Gloria Anzaldúa and the Tenets of EcofeminismPart 10 Voices From the FieldChapter 11 10. Teaching the Trees: How to be a Female Nature WriterChapter 12 11. Confessions of an Eco-Feminist

The editor provides a cogent explanation of the basic premises of ecofeminism and a brief history of nature writing by North American women....Recommended.