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a 'feminist View W O M E N W R I T I N G N A T U··R E J. BARBARA COOK EDITED BY Women Writing Nature Women Writing Nature A Feminist View EDITED BY J. BARBARA COOK LEXINGT ON BOOKS A division of ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS, INC. Lanham • Boulder• New York • Toronto • Plymouth, UK LEXfNGTON BOOKS A division of Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Lnc. A wholly owned subsidiary of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc. 450 I Forbes Boulevard, Suite 200 Lanham, MD 20706 Estover Road Plymouth PL6 7PY United Kingdom Copyright © 2008 by Lexington Books All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher. "The Day Millicent Found the World," copyright 1991, 1998 by the Estate of William Stafford, is reprinted from The Way It Is: New & Selected Poems with the permission of Graywolf Press, Saint Paul, Minnesota. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Information Available Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Women writing nature : a feminist view / edited by Barbara J. Cook. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN-13: 978-0-7391-1912-9 (cloth: alk. paper) ISBN-10: 0-7391-1912-5 ( cloth : alk. paper) ISBN-13: 978-0-7391-1913-6 (pbk. : alk. paper) ISBN-IO: 0-7391-1913-3 (pbk.: alk. paper) I. American literature--Women authors- History and criticism. 2. Natural history literature. 3. Ecofeminism in literature. 4. Philosophy of nature in literature. 5. Feminism and literature. 6. Feminist criticism. 7. Ecocriticism. I. Cook, Barbara J. PS I 63. W66 2008 810.9'36-<lc22 2007038882 Printed in the United States of America §TM The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences-Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI/NISO 239.48-1992. ·. For Ron and Shannon Leigh who love the ocean; and wornen writing nature and those of us who read their work. , Table of Contents 1 Introduction: Nature Writing From the Feminine I Barbara J Cook 2 Modernist Women, Snake Stories, and the Indigenous Southwest: An Ecofeminist Politics of Creation and Affin:nation 7 Alex Hunt 3 Littoral Women Writing From the Margins 21 Susan A. C. Rosen 4 Multifaceted Dialogues: Toward an Environmental Ethic of Care 33 Barbara J. Cook 5 Wild Women: Literary Explorations of American Landscapes 41 Sarah E. McFarland 6 Louise Gluck, Feminism and Nature in Firstborn's "The Egg" 57 Mary Kate Azcuy 7 ' Ecofeminism, Motherhood, and the Post-Apocalyptic Utopia in Parable oft he Sower, Parable oft he Talents, and Into the Forest 67 Heidi Hutner 8 Natural Resistance: Margaret Atwood as Ecofeminist or Apocalyptic Visionary 81 H. Louise Davis Table of Contents V111 9 Touching the Earth: Gloria Anzaldua and the Tenets of 95 Ecof eminism Allison Steele Voices From the Field IO Teaching the Trees: How to be a Female Nature Writer 109 Joan E. Maloof 11 Confessions of an Ecofeminist 119 Rosemarie Rowley Bibliography 131 Index 139 Contributors 143
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