Ecofeminist Literary Criticism

Theory, Interpretation, Pedagogy

Author: Edited by Greta Gaard and Patrick D. Murphy

Illuminating ecofeminism as a valuable component of literary criticism

Paper – $33

978-0-252-06708-2

Publication Date

Paperback: 01/01/1998

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About the Book

In Ecofeminist Literary Criticism, Greta Gaard and Patrick D. Murphy offer essays that explore how ecofeminism can enrich literary criticism and how literary criticism can contribute to ecofeminist theory and activism.Contributors: Stacy Alaimo, Karla Armbruster, Josephine Donovan, Greta Gaard, Barbara T. Gates, Deborah Janson, Cassandra Kircher, Cathleen McGuire, Colleen McGuire, Patrick D. Murphy, Kamalal Platt, Deborah Slicer, John Paul Tassoni

About the Author

Greta Gaard is a professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls and the author of Critical Ecofeminism. Patrick D. Murphy is the associate dean for Academic Affairs at Temple Rome and a professor in the Department of Media Studies and Production in the Klein College of Media and Communication at Temple University. He is the author of The Media Commons: Globalization and Environmental Discourses.

Reviews

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“A long overdue and valuable contribution to ecofeminist studies.”--Cheryll Glotfelty, editor of The Ecocriticism Reader: Landmarks in Literary Ecology

“An outstanding contribution to the developing field of ecofeminism. It will be as useful to those who have been looking for a good text on which to base a course in ecofeminist literary criticism as it will be to those who wonder what the field is all about. Taken together, these essays suggest the range of connections and possibilities implicit in ecofeminist literary criticism--connections, for example, between spirituality and science, ecology and literature, or environmental activism and literary theory.”--Carol H. Cantrell, Colorado State University